In 2025, the last full year of PacFIN data, West Coast commercial fishermen landed 5.9 million pounds of chum salmon worth $6.8 million, averaging $1.15 per pound. Ex-vessel value fell 15% from 2024, while average price per pound rose 90%. Ranked by total catch value, chum salmon is 11th among the 263 species and species groups reported to PacFIN and tracked by Cormorant.
Oregon landings of chum salmon total less than 1% of ex-vessel value (or are confidential) and are not charted.
All reported 2025 ex-vessel value for chum salmon came from Washington, though landings also occurred in Oregon in small or confidential amounts. It was landed in 6 of the 19 PacFIN port areas, 3 of them confidential, from Northern Puget Sound south to Coastal Washington, with confidential landings as far south as Newport, Oregon. Southern Puget Sound led all port areas with 37% of value.
Port areas ranked by ex-vessel value with landed weight and price per pound.
2 port areas have confidential chum salmon data and are excluded from these rankings.
Chum salmon landings are highly seasonal: 78% of 2025 landed pounds came in October alone.
6 months have only confidential chum salmon landings and are shown as empty.
Chum salmon is landed entirely with nets (100% of its 2025 West Coast ex-vessel value, based on PacFIN gear-group landings).
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Data sourced from PacFIN (Pacific Fisheries Information Network) and carries the limitations of that source, including reporting lags and confidentiality thresholds for landings with fewer than 3 vessels. Cormorant does not guarantee accuracy and is not a substitute for official fisheries reporting.