Steelhead:
Skeena commercial fisheries now closed for season.
First Nations food fishing continues.
Index now at 146.75 to Sept.09.
Index past the minimum spawning requirement which is 135 Index points or 32,000 steelhead.
Slight delay in DFO posting numbers recently, including a pause for the long weekend.

Nass steelhead run estimates well above average.

Sockeye:Run has failed to live up to pre-season forecasts of 2 million. Escapement to Aug22 is at approx 859,000. Average from 1980-2000 is 1,243,257
Announcement of no further gillnet opportunities on north coast as of Aug.13.
First Nations food fishery continuing. Recreational sockeye fishery also still open.
Projected total return now just less than 1 million.

Nass Sockeye:
Also tracking below the pre-season forecast return of 511,000. Up to Aug.11 escapement was 240,482. Target is 268,720. 1991-2000 Average is 286,135

Coho:
Index well above average levels. To Sept.09 at 128.17

Pink:
At Index of 1636.90 for Sept.09 tracking above the decade average and continuing to return strong.
Record numbers of pinks harvested on north coast this season at over 6 million

Chum:
At 33.28 above 2000's Avg. of 16.15
Still a stock of conservation concern on the north coast. Bycatch impact of approx 50,000 so far in 2009, well above last years 23,000 bycatch harvest.

Chinook:
As of Sept.07 at 236.76
Recreational catch of 5113 in Chatham Sound Creel Survey preliminary numbers so far.
Commercial catch at 1299-Area3 and 2438-Area4 for a total of 3737.
Chinook run basically over.