If you want fresh silver salmon on your dinner table, come and get them, because with the statewide season about to end they’re going fast.

The preliminary statewide harvest report compiled by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game showed a catch of 1.4 million silvers, compared to a forecast of 2.4 million fish.

Seafood retailers in the Anchorage area were expecting their last shipments of fresh cohos in the third week of September. With fresh sockeye salmon gone for the season, the demand for fresh cohos was steady, they said.

As the overall statewide commercial salmon harvest continued to wind down, salmon harvests across the board lagged behind 2025, McKinley Research Group noted in its final season report on Sept. 9 on behalf of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

Through statistical week 36, which ended on Sept. 6, sockeyes were the only species to surpass 70% of the annual projection, with pink and Chinook salmon following at 68% and 67% respectively. McKinley Research said it appeared that no Alaska salmon species would reach the complete annual projection for 2026. Through statistical week 36, pink salmon harvests surpassed 2024, the most recent even year, on a year-to-date basis for the first time this summer, up 2%.

Pink salmon markets rely heavily on carryover inventory from strong harvest years to compensate for lower harvests in even years. Typically harvest from 2025 would help the wholesale market smooth lower volumes in 2026, although 2025 was the lowest odd-year harvest since 2009, leaving a potential supply deficit in the latter half of 2026, into 2027, McKinley Research analysts said.

For the central region overall, the preliminary harvest included 4,000 Chinook, 1.1 million chum, 401,000 coho, 3.9 million pink and 36.7 million sockeyes.

For Cook Inlet the year-to-date total preliminary catch compiled by ADF&G stood at 970,000 sockeyes, down 76%; 38,000 pink, down 22%; keta 86,000, down 23%; and 78,000 pink, down 28%. No commercial Chinook harvests were noted in Cook Inlet.

Retail sales were brisk at two Anchorage seafood markets, as well as Costco warehouses. At 10th & M, New Sagaya and Costco the prices for silver salmon fillets was $14.95 a pound. New Sagaya also had a sale on headed and gutted fresh silvers for $8.95 a pound, including free filleting.