Commercial Salmon Fisheries
Yukon Management Area
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Fishery Advisory Announcements
- Yukon Area Coastal District, Districts 1 and 2 Subsistence Fishing Schedule (PDF 220 kB) - 5/26/23
- 2023 Yukon River Salmon Fisheries Outlook (PDF 294 kB) - 5/8/23
- Board of Fisheries Actions: Yukon Area Regulatory Changes (PDF 277 kB) - 4/12/23
- 2022 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 979 kB) - 1/10/23
Harvest
- 2022 Yukon Area Summer Season Summary (PDF 669 kB)
- 2021 Yukon Area Summer Season Summary (PDF 928 kB)
- 2020 Yukon Area Summer Season Summary (PDF 848 kB)
- 2019 Yukon Area Summer Season Summary (PDF 995 kB)
- 2018 Yukon Area Summer Season Summary (PDF 1,028 kB)
- 2022 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 979 kB)
- 2021 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 901 kB)
- 2020 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 1,184 kB)
- 2019 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 1,225 kB)
- 2018 Yukon Area Fall Season Summary (PDF 1,033 kB)
Subsistence
- Subsistence and Personal Use Salmon Harvests in the Alaska Portion of the Yukon River Drainage, 2016 (PDF 3,892 kB)
- Subsistence and Personal Use Salmon Harvests in the Alaska Portion of the Yukon River Drainage, 2015 (PDF 3,041 kB)
- Subsistence and Personal Use Salmon Harvests in the Alaska Portion of the Yukon River Drainage, 2014 (PDF 3,353 kB)
Management
Outlook & Management Plans
- 2021 Yukon River Salmon Fisheries Outlook (PDF 337 kB)
Annual Management Reports
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2018 (PDF 10,381 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2017 (PDF 9,925 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2016 (PDF 8,745 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2015 (PDF 6,834 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2014 (PDF 6,737 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2013 (PDF 5,907 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Yukon Area, 2012 (PDF 919 kB)
Other Publications
U.S./Canada
- Yukon River Salmon 2021 Season Summary and 2022 Season Outlook (PDF 4,173 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2020 Season Summary and 2021 Season Outlook (PDF 3,856 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2019 Season Summary and 2020 Season Outlook (PDF 3,551 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2018 Season Summary and 2019 Season Outlook (PDF 2,995 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2017 Season Summary and 2018 Season Outlook (PDF 4,063 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2016 Season Summary and 2017 Season Outlook (PDF 4,341 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2015 Season Summary and 2016 Season Outlook (PDF 3,607 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2014 Season Summary and 2015 Season Outlook (PDF 3,920 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2013 Season Summary and 2014 Season Outlook (PDF 3,877 kB)
- Yukon River Salmon 2012 Season Summary and 2013 Season Outlook (PDF 3,383 kB)
Regulations
- 2019-2021 Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Commercial-Subsistence-Personal Use Finfish and Shellfish Fishing Regulations (PDF 1,123 kB)
(Includes changes made effective through July 2019)
Forecasts
- 2016 Preliminary Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Forecast (PDF 85 kB)
- 2015 Preliminary Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Forecast (PDF 432 kB)
- 2014 Preseason Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Forecast (PDF 439 kB)
- Updated 2013 Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Forecast (PDF 147 kB)
- 2013 Preseason Yukon River Chinook Run Timing Forecast (PDF 117 kB)
- Yukon Area subsistence, personal use, and commercial salmon fisheries outlook and management strategies (PDF 408 kB)
- Statewide Salmon Forecast
Maps
Yukon River Statistical Areas
- Yukon River (all districts) (PDF 892 kB)
- Yukon River - District 1 (PDF 557 kB)
- Yukon River - District 1 Setnet (PDF 1,131 kB)
- Yukon River - District 2 (PDF 354 kB)
- Yukon River - District 3 (PDF 472 kB)
- Yukon River - District 4 (PDF 460 kB)
- Anvik River (PDF 270 kB)
- Yukon River - District 5 (PDF 530 kB)
- Yukon River - District 6 (PDF 470 kB)
Statewide Maps
Research
- Sonar Estimation of Chinook and Fall Chum Salmon Passage in the Yukon River Near Eagle, Alaska, 2019 (PFD 3,514 kB)
- Origins of Chinook salmon in Yukon Area fisheries, 2015 (PFD 690 kB)
- Northeastern Bering Sea Juvenile Chinook Salmon Survey, 2017 and Yukon River Adult Run Forecasts, 2018-2020 (PFD 2,060 kB)
- Sonar Estimation of Salmon Passage in the Yukon River Near Pilot Station Alaska, 2017 (PFD 2,885 kB)
- Age, sex, and length for Chinook and summer chum salmon within the Yukon Area, 2016 (PFD 1,923 kB)
- Sonar Estimation of Salmon Passage in the Yukon River Near Pilot Station Alaska, 2018 (PFD 2,485 kB)
- Sonar Estimation of Summer Chum and Pink Salmon in the Anvik River, Alaska, 2018 (PFD 2,613 kB)
- Age, sex, and length for Chinook and summer chum salmon within the Yukon Area, 2017 (PFD 1,969 kB)
- Exploration of AYK Chinook Salmon Egg Thiamine Levels as a Potential Mechanism Contributing to Recent Low Productivity Patterns, 2014 and 2015 (PFD 332 kB)
- Origins of Chinook salmon in the Yukon Area fisheries, 2014 (PFD 481 kB)
- Estimation of U.S.-Canada Border Age-composition of Yukon River Chinook Salmon, 1982-2006 (PFD 4,335 kB)
- Yukon River subsistence harvest genetic stock identification, 2017 (PDF 738 kB)
- Sonar estimation of Chinook and fall chum salmon passage in the Yukon River near Eagle, Alaska, 2017 (PDF 3,525 kB)
- Sonar Estimation of Summer Chum and Pink salmon in the Anvik River, Alaska, 2017 (PDF 2,119 kB)
- Updated Passage Estimates for the Pilot Station Sonar Project, 1995-2015 (PDF 468 kB)
- Genetic Stock Identification of Chinook Salmon Harvest on the Yukon River, 2010 (PDF 661 kB)
- Prevalence of Ichthyophonus in Chinook Salmon Entering the Yukon River and at Tanana Stock Spawning Grounds, 2004-2006 (PDF 9,040 kB)
- Assessment of Ichthyophonus in Chinook Salmon within the Yukon River Drainage, 2004 (PDF 2,156 kB)
- Length-Girth, Length-Weight, and Fecundity of Yukon River Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (PDF 419 kB)
- Yukon River Chinook Salmon Comparative Mesh Size Study (PDF 745 kB)
- Yukon River Chinook Salmon Aging Consistency (PDF 1,876 kB)
- Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Database Management System
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