We are still struggling to get sufficient broodstock for Medvejie and Deep Inlet chum programs. As of Sunday we had 17 million chum eggs and an estimated 30,000 broodstock fish in Bear Cove. This is far short of the number we need so we will capture broodstock at Deep Inlet on Tuesday. Net pens are standing ready at DI and will be towed back on Wednesday or Thursday. One piece of good news is we made improvements to the fish ladder at Medvejie and we are spawning more fish than ever before. If it was not for increased efficiency we would have a difficult time spawning the necessary fish before they expired waiting to get up the ladder.
The egg goal remains at 66 million; after today’s eggtake we should have 20 million eggs, leaving 46 million to go. Roughly that requires 46,000 brood fish assuming favorable sex ratio. It appears we will make the goal but that will not be known for two weeks.
Likely scenario is we move 20,000 fish from Deep Inlet, spawn through September 13th and assess eggtake numbers versus broodstock. If we think we have enough fish to meet the goal we will begin conducting cost recovery which still remains at 440,000 lbs. outstanding.
A common property fishery at Deep Inlet seems unlikely but if it does occur it will be ten days to two weeks off.
