View the 2018 Black Cod Almanac is here, and here are some highlights:
-In 2017, 3,322 sablefish, 877 shortspine thornyhead, 9 Greenland turbot were tagged; plus 3 spiny dogfish with pop-off satellite tags. The greatest time at liberty for a tag is 13,568 days or about 39 years. And the greatest distance a tagged sablefish has traveled is 1,544 nm from the tip of the Aleutians to central Southeast Alaska.
-The Gulf of Alaska trawl survey for sablefish was up 79% from 2016
-The 2014 year classes is estimated to be 10 times higher than the long-term average.
-Longline survey locations and dates for 2018 are posted at the end of the Almanac