The gillnet and spring troll management plans are available at ADFG offices or online.  The Seine management plan is not yet published. Gillnet http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/region1/pdfs/salmon/rir_1j07_05_2007.pdf Spring Troll http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/region1/pdfs/salmon/rir_1j07_06_07_spring_troll_mp.pdf

The Governor hired Cora Crome from Petersburg to become the fish person in the Governor’s office.  The official notice will come out when Cora formally starts work.  In the meantime Cora will be busy moving to Juneau.

SEAFA will be sending out FREE to our members this years supply of alcohol testing strips.  We just received them and will be sending out 2 test strips for each boat.  If more is needed, please contact us.

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld U.S. District Judge James Redden’s order requiring the dams to sacrifice power production to help juvenile salmon migrating to the ocean. It also keeps open the possibility that Redden could order four dams on the lower Snake […]

POT SHRIMP SURVEY CHARTER BID PACKETS AVAILABLE Juneau. . . The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today that bid packets are available in Douglas, Petersburg, Sitka, and Ketchikan offices to conduct a pot survey to assess stocks of spot and coonstripe shrimp populations in Districts 3, 7, 12, and 13 of Southeast Alaska. […]

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME DIVISION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES NEWS RELEASE Denby S. Lloyd, Commissioner John Hilsinger, Director Contact: Petersburg Area Office Brian Lynch P.O. Box 667 Petersburg, Alaska 99833 Phone: (907) 772-3801 Date: April 10, 2007 Fax: (907) 772-9336 Time: 9:00 a.m. 2007 COMMERCIAL TROLL CHINOOK SALMON QUOTAS Petersburg. . . The Alaska […]

The PR spin on fish farming continues. There was an article in the Bainbridge Island paper. This is the basis for the amount of pollution that flushes from the salmon farms into Washington waters, which I sent to the reporter: Arthur Whiteley, using information from the Dept. of Ecology, calculated that the 6 active salmon […]

Ocean Ranching of salmon by our hatcheries is considered largest agricultural industry in Alaska. Laine Welch in her weekly column wrote, “According to the annual report on Alaska’s salmon enhancement programs, nearly 1.5 billion baby salmon were released to the ocean last year, while 48 million returned to their home hatcheries. Those fish accounted for […]

The NMFS has published a proposed rule that would restrict the 2C halibut charter fleet for the 2007 season a 2-fish bag limit but one of the fish must be under 32″.  The expectation is that this will save approximately 400,000 lbs of fish.  This regulation is meant to replace the IPHC recommendation that was […]

Becca Robbins Gisclair works for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association in Anchorage wrote an opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News.  Shestates that the Bering Sea/Aleution Island pollock fleet caught 74,000 chinook in 2005; 84,000 chinook in 2006 and 700,000 chums in 2005 and 325,000 chums in 2006.  Two months into the pollock season […]