Commercial harvesters delivered nearly 185 million salmon to processors through Sept. 9, with all five species exceeding 80% of the annual projects as the season nears its end.

Coho harvests stood at over 2 million fish, up from 1.7 million a week earlier and were expected to continue for a few more weeks, although weekly harvest of all other species has declined in line with past harvest timing, said Simon Marks, who compiles weekly in-season harvest reports for McKinley Research Group on behalf of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.  Marks' in-season reports for the year concluded on Sept. 9.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the overall preliminary harvests for the five species of Pacific salmon at 109 million pink, 52 million sockeye, 17 million keta, 1.7 million coho and 165,000 Chinook salmon, up by 4 million pounds from a week earlier.

The statewide pink salmon harvest of 112 million fish to date was 24% below the 2023 catch.  Marks noted that Kodiak is the only region with year-over-year growth, 36% above 2023. The Kodiak harvest had the potential to climb higher; however, a diesel spill in the region closed the fishery in two sections of the Afognak district on Sept. 1, he said.

The statewide keta harvest stood at 13% above 2024. Strong harvests in Prince William Sound and the Alaska Peninsula this year compensated for the 21% decline in the Southeast keta harvest, Marks noted. The keta harvest in 2025 peaked in week 28 and has declined since. This differs from past years in which harvest peaked again in week 33.