Here are the salmon fishing harvest summaries from the July 2nd and July 3rd fishing opportunities provided by the Kuskokwim InterTribal Fish Commission (KRITFC), released on July 7th, 2025 in their Inseason Update, and also the In-Season Salmon Monitoring Update, and the salmon bycatch and intercept report as of July 3rd, 2025.
During lower Kuskokwim subsistence fishing opportunities, KRITFC works with the Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council and Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge to gather on-the-ground harvest interviews and fishing effort data in the lower Kuskokwim. This helps us produce in-season harvest estimates to inform fisheries managers.
On July 2, 2025, there were an estimated:
23 set net trips
729 total fish harvested
28 Chinook salmon harvested
81 chum salmon harvested
619 sockeye salmon harvested
On July 3, 2025, there were an estimated:
44 set net trips
2,249 salmon harvested
70 Chinook salmon harvested
473 chum salmon harvested
1,706 sockeye salmon harvested
Find a recap of the earlier fishing opportunities’ harvest estimates on our 2025 Fishing Info page.
Please note: These harvest estimates range only from fishing trips between Tuntutuliak to Tuluksak during federally announced openers. Since salmon are also harvested in non-spawning tributaries, with alternative gear, downriver from Tuntutuliak, and upriver from Tuluksak, we consider them a minimum estimate of fish harvested this season.
IN-SEASON SALMON MONITORING UPDATES
Our Community Based Harvest Monitors are currently working on preparing harvest estimates for the tenth season opener, which started this morning, July 7 at 7am and will end tomorrow, July 8 at 7pm. Over the first nine openers, we estimate that subsistence fishers from Tuntutuliak to Tuluksak have harvested at least:
34,193 Chinook salmon
20,495 chum salmon
30,357 sockeye salmon
~85,000 total salmon
For more information about our in-season harvest monitoring program, visit the Community-Based Harvest Monitoring (CBHM) Program & In-Season Harvest Estimation page on our website.
SALMON BYCATCH & INTERCEPT REPORT
BERING SEA BYCATCH: As of July 3, 2025, commercial fisheries in the Bering Sea have caught 16,210 Chinook salmon and 3,080 chum salmon as bycatch. These are total numbers of salmon bycatch and not Kuskokwim-specific salmon. On average, 40-50% of all Chinook salmon and 12-20% of all chum salmon bycatch in Bering Sea pollock trawl fisheries are of Western and Interior Alaska origin.
These federal fisheries are managed by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) and NOAA Fisheries, and they include pollock trawl fisheries.
This year, the Bristol Bay Science and Research Institute (BBSRI) is again collecting in-season genetic samples from chum salmon bycatch from the B-season inshore pollock trawl fishery. Whereas most genetic analyses take a year or more to produce, this initiative produces in-season genetic analyses of the bulk of the Bering Sea chum salmon bycatch, providing information for the pollock industry to avoid Western and Interior Alaska chum salmon. BBSRI’s data are reported here.
AREA M INTERCEPT: As of June 30, 2025, ––the end of the June season––South Alaska Peninsula (Area M) fisheries have reported catching 165,028 chum salmon and 2,249 Chinook salmon.
Anywhere from 18-57% of the chum salmon, and an unknown number of Chinook salmon, caught in this fishery are of Western and Interior Alaska origin. This state fishery is managed by the Alaska Board of Fisheries and Alaska Department of Fish & Game.