Trident in Naknek is taking in about 600K pounds a day now and their QC lab hasn't taken note of anything out of the ordinary as far as parasites go.
With the increase in catches at the Port Moller test site they should be seeing a million to a 1.5M a day soon at their docks in Naknek.
PMTF Update #24, July 5
Today’s Daily Catch Index was the highest observed so far this year, but being similar to the previous three days is showing signs of leveling off. Even if the passage rate at the transect peaked today, the run would be at least six days late at Port Moller.
Notice how the distribution of catch indices across the transect shifted in a single day (see Figure 2 in the Catch Update). These results highlight the importance of covering the entire transect and how relatively large catch indices can be missed in between every other station.
The Ocean Cat is headed Northeast of Station 21 to get out of tomorrow’s northwesterly by anchoring near Cape Newenham/Hagemeister Island. The Americanus is getting into Port Moller about now. Tomorrow does not look good for fishing.
PMTF Stock Composition Status: The remaining genetic samples from 7/3 (Stations 8-20) and all of 7/4 samples will arrive in Port Moller tonight. We plan to ship them to Anchorage tomorrow; if it works, estimates will be available Tuesday (7/7).
Summary of catch indices for today are as follows:
Station Index
Stn2 8
Stn3 0
Stn4 23
Stn5 189
Stn6 44
Stn7 130
Stn8 138
Stn9 235
Stn10 291
Stn11 77
Stn12 80
Stn13 Not fished
Stn14 5
Stn15 Not fished
Stn16 156
Stn17 Not fished
Stn18 110
Stn19 45
Stn20 205
Stn21 26
Stn22 Not fished
Daily Index (Stations 2-10) = 101
Cumulative Daily Index (Stations 2-10) = 872
