2024 and 2025 Bering Sea Pollock Fishery's Chinook Salmon Bycatch Genetics Stock Identification results
The 2024 and 2025 Bering Sea pollock fishery Chinook salmon bycatch genetics stock identification results, which utilized a newly developed genetic baseline from Andy Barclay at the ADF&G Gene Conservation Laboratory, indicate that Chinook salmon originating from the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers and Bristol Bay collectively comprised 50% of the total prohibited species catch in 2024 and 71% in 2025.