Attached is the letter from the Coast Guard granting an exemption for vessels under 79 feet, and in the inside waters of SE Alaska and outside of 3 mile baseline (contiguous/donut holes in Cross Sound, Sitka Sound, Icy Strait, Chatham Strait, , Stephens Passage, Lynn Canal, Fredrick Sound, Clarence Strait and REvillagigedo Channel. SEAK Exemption […]

The Council took final action on the Catch Sharing Plan (CSP). By a vote of 10-1 (Sam Cotton opposed) they adopted Alternative 3 for Area 2C and Alternative 4 for Area 3A. The final percentages approved were : Area 2C: At a combined charter and setline halibut catch limit of <5 million pounds, the charter […]

The NPFMC will be taking up several issues of interest to SEAFA Members. Approximately Wednesday afternoon through Friday the NPFMC will be taking final action (again) on a Halibut Catch Share Plan (CSP) between commercial and charter industries. There are options on the table to reallocate to the charter sector up to 5% above the allocation set in the […]

The following rotational fishery schedule and area description will be in effect from 12:00 noon, Monday, September 24, 2012, unless changed by subsequent announcement: The Neets Bay terminal harvest area will be open east of the longitude of the easternmost tip of Bug Island and west of the barrier net at the head of the […]

ADFG announced the following meetings to be held the first week of December 2012: Gillnet Task Force Meeting – Juneau – December 4th, 1:00 pm until meeting is completed at the ADFG Commissioners Conference Room SE Regional Planning Team (RPT) Meeting – Juneau – December 5th, 9:00 am until 5:00 pm or until finished at Centennial Hall […]

Meeting locations are as follows: ADFG offices: Douglas/Juneau; Petersburg, Sitka and Ketchikan Wrangell will be at the City Council Chamber If you are interested and unable to attend at one of these locations, please call SEAFA 586-6652 and prearrange for a teleconference line to be made available for you. Proposed Agenda Preseason Dungeness Crab Paralytic […]

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Alaska Board of Fisheries 2012/2013 Cycle Bristol Bay, Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim, and Alaska Peninsula/Aleutian Islands Finfish; Statewide General Finfish Provisions; and Supplemental Issues. DOWNLOAD (PDF 2,240 kB) (Takes you to Board of Fish page, 1/2 way down is link to the pdf file.

In 2006, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council recommended an amendment to the halibut and sablefish IFQ regulations to revoke quota shares (QS) that have been inactive since they were originally issued in 1995. Inactive QS are those held by persons that have never harvested their IFQ and have never transferred QS or IFQ into […]

Juneau. . . The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (department) announced today that the 2012/2013 commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in Southeastern Alaska will not be reduced in duration and will remain as described in 5 AAC 32.110. In accordance with the Southeastern Alaska Dungeness Crab Management Plan [5 AAC 32.146], the department has […]