Alaska's 2025 commercial salmon harvest reached over 129 million fish through Aug. 12, with sockeye, keta and coho catches appearing on pace to reach total annual projections.

Those projected 2025 harvests would add up to 214.6 million salmon, including over 138 million pink, 52.9 million sockeye, 20.8 million keta, 2.3 million coho and 144,000 kings.

Data compiled by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game showed the statewide pink harvest at 62.3 million fish, followed by 51.3 million sockeyes, 14.5 million chum, 888,000 coho and 150,000 king salmon.

The pink salmon season is approaching the traditional peak, and commercial catch is expected to grow, said Simon Marks, who produced weekly in-season commercial salmon harvest updates at McKinley Research Group on behalf of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

A total of 14 million humpies were harvested in statistical week 32, Aug. 3-10. That total harvest was 30% below 2023, with Southern Southeast seine and Cook Inlet fisheries harvest declining most, Marks said. Coho harvests were up 85% year-over-year, rebounding from a historically low harvest in 2024. Coho harvests historically peak in week 25 and the catch should grow over the next four weeks, he said.

Preseason projections indicated 2025 Chinook harvests would be below 2024. Despite a high proportion of catch happening through week 32 this year, commercial harvests of this species so far in 2025 are aligned with this expectation, he said.

Retail demand for sockeye salmon in the Anchorage area has remained strong. Supermarket prices were overall several dollars above those for the same period a year ago, including $17.99 a pound at Carrs-Safeway stores and $15.99 a pound at Fred Meyer.  Seafood specialty markets like 10th & M Seafoods and New Sagaya lowered the price of their sockeye fillets, mostly from Bristol Bay, to $13.99 a pound, while Costco warehouses dropped the price for red salmon fillets to $9.99 a pound.

Anchorage area restaurants meanwhile were offering  entrees of Alaska sockeye salmon and veggies for $28 to $38 a plate.