We captured broodstock at Deep Inlet on September 7 & 8 and transported ~19,000 fish to Medvejie last night. We estimate there are another 15,000 fish at Bear Cove but they are not pushing the ladder so eggtakes have slowed. At this date we have 24 million eggs of the 66 million needed. Therefore we still need roughly 42,000 brood fish. Adding what we towed to Medvejie we estimate we have 34,000 fish as of September 9, which is short of the necessary number.
We will continue eggtakes through early next week and decide if we need to capture more brood at Deep Inlet (seems highly likely). Fish numbers at Deep Inlet are quite small as the seiner mopped it up well. Meeting the broodstock goal remains tentative; cost recovery is certainly out of reach.
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