Bristol Bay Gillnetters on anchor, Icicle Seafoods was the first buyer at Bristol Bay to post base prices for sockeye, happy news for fishermen and their families

Bristol Bay Ak, Icicle Seafoods in the spotlight with many thankful fishermen and their families. Icicle Seafoods posted a head of most in 2019, being first buyer at Bristol Bay to post base prices for sockeye at $1.35 a pound, such good news for fishermen – up from the average $1.26 last season, and $.40 for chums, an increase of 4 cents. After a long hot, abnormally warm season in the bay this good news is well deserved.

Icicle Seafoods, Tug Wasp, Western Towboat Assist, Icicle Seafoods Bristol Bay Salmon Prices 1st, Photography by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing PNW Marine Traffic Underway Source PNW to AK

Alaska General Seafoods, North Pacific Seafoods and Peter Pan Seafoods at Bristol Bay also have posted a sockeye base of $1.35. – More follow the lead of Icicle Seafoods in Bristol Bay. More scuttlebut includes: KDLG out of Dillingham reported that Icicle will also be paying 15 cent bonuses for iced or RSW fish for both drift and setnetters, plus 8 cents more for chilled/bled, and a 5-cent premium for floated fish. All told, that’s $1.63 per pound for sockeyes at Bristol Bay. Great news on these hot days.

Gordon Jensen, Icicle Seafoods, Viking Queen, Botany Bay, Salmon Tenders Alaska, Photography by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing PNW Marine Traffic Underway Source PNW to AK

Kodiak prices have taken a slip at $1.45 for sockeyes, $.27 for pinks and $.25 for chums. Compared to last year’s averages of $1.56, $.39 and $.51. In Cook Inlet, sockeye prices are reported at $1.70, down from $2.27. This is a big yikes in decline compared to last season.

F/V Viking Queen, Icicle Seafoods, Salmon Tender Alaska, Photography by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing PNW Marine Traffic Underway Source

Southeast Alaska trollers are averaging $5.13 a pound for kings, $1.56 for silvers and $.61 for chums, according to fish tickets. Prices for seine and gillnet salmon were reported at $.55 for chums, down from $.90; sockeyes at $1.90, a drop of six cents, and $.30 for pinks, down from $.38 per pound on average from last season, summer of 2018.

Norton Sound, chum prices are at $.50 were down from $.80, and coho at $1.40 was the same as last year. All and all fishermen/fisherwomen are either wrapped up already in Bristol Bay and or in SE they still have a little more than a month left to set their nets in the abnormal heat that is still brightening their long sunny days.

Icicle Seafoods, F/V Viking Queen, A fishing staple in the Alaska commercial fishing fleets, & the Logo boat for Pacific Fishermen Shipyard, Photography by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing PNW Marine Traffic Underway Source, PNW to Alaska

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