May 25, 2017 — The value of commercial landings in Alaska was unchanged from 2014 to 2015, according to a federal report, but some popular fisheries such as herring were down.
The Peninsula Clarion says the report released this month by the National Marine Fisheries Service shows the value of all commercially fished species in the North Pacific was $1.7 billion in 2015, virtually unchanged from the previous year.
The salmon market remains troubled because of an ongoing embargo on selling to Russia and was down 24 percent from 2014.
The value of the herring fishery was down 39 percent and also hurt by the Russia embargo. The Clarion reports a cut in the Sitka Sound herring sac roe fishery by about half affected total landing values.