Commercial troll fishermen were out on the water July 1 as the Southeast Alaska summer king salmon fishery opened.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will close the fishery once the catch estimate approaches the harvest target of about 81,300 treaty kings.

The department expects that will take seven to 10 days, putting the closure sometime this week.

About 70% of the summer commercial troll harvest quota of 116,100 treaty kings is allocated to the July fishery; the rest is held for an August opening that will begin no later than Aug. 20.

This past winter, Southeast trollers harvested 18,100 treaty kings, and the spring troll fishery harvest is projected to total 8,100 treaty kings when all of the fish tickets are tallied, the department said in a recent advisory announcement.

The harvest limit for trollers is based on Southeast Alaska’s king allocation under the Pacific Salmon Treaty, which the Alaska Board of Fisheries allocates among user groups. The quotas on treaty kings — which migrant through U.S. and Canadian waters — does not apply to kings raised in Alaska hatcheries.

The 2026 quota for all Southeast gear groups is 205,300 treaty kings, and the troll fleet’s share is 146,000. The rest goes to other commercial catches and sportfishing.

The state projects that trollers will harvest about 10,000 Alaska hatchery kings between the winter, spring and summer seasons.

In a recent in-season update, the department reported that the current spring troll king average weight of 11.1 pounds is below the 2025 and five-year averages of 11.6 and 11.3 pounds, respectively, for the same period.

The spring seasonal average price of $9.36 per pound is above the 2025 price and five-year averages of $8.83 and $8.62.