Tongass Narrows has a Speed-Zone of 7 knots in the region shown in the map attached. The Coast Guard sent out a reminder that fines can be issued for violating the speed zone restriction.

MSIB_UNCLASS_SP_Tongass Narrows Speed Zone_19Aug19

Deep Inlet Berry Island Noise Incident Reduction Plan Mar’19

CFEC, DMV and Dept of Administration worked together to put together a handout on the new vessel registration requirements. Here is a link to that document.

AK Vessel Registration HANDOUT 061819

IMPORTANT * PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END * NEW LAW THAT AFFECTS COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN
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January 1, 2019 a new law went into effect requiring State Vessel Registration. The law is from SB 92 Derelict Vessel Act passed in 2018 legislature.
This requires you to register your vessel with the State of Alaska even if you are a DOCUMENTED vessel. YOU MUST STILL RENEW YOUR COAST GUARD DOCUMENTATION. THIS REGISTRATION WILL BE IN ADDITION TO.
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The fee is $24.00 for 3 years.
• Alaska Statute 05.25.055 was amended to require all boats not specifically exempted, including documented boats, barges, sport fishing guide boats, and tenders to be registered with the State of Alaska.
• YOU MUST REGISTER IN PERSON AT YOUR LOCAL DMV OFFICE

FORM FOR REGISTRATION
DOCUMENTED BOATS
Don’t forget to renew your USCG Documentation – this registration does not take the place of your documentation from the USCG – it is in addition to.
DO NOT TITLE your boat with the State of Alaska – only file for registration.
Only place on your boat the square registration decal – do not place any additional AK numbers.
You will need to take a copy of your Document into the State DMV office when registering.
STATE WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS NEW LAW

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• The only exemptions for registration requirements are the following
• Non-boats
The following are not considered boats and are not required to be registered:
o a ship’s lifeboat
o a seaplane
o an inspected passenger vessel; and
o single air mattress, single inner tube, or other water toy
• Non-powered boats – Unless a boat has an auxiliary power unit or is used as a sport fishing guide’s boat, non-powered boats are not required to be registered.
• Registered elsewhere – A boat with a valid registration from another state or country that is not operated more than 90 consecutive days in Alaska.
FORM FOR REGISTRATION
DOCUMENTED BOATS
Don’t forget to renew your USCG Documentation – this registration does not take the place of your documentation from the USCG – it is in addition to.
DO NOT TITLE your boat with the State of Alaska – only file for registration.
Only place on your boat the square registration decal – do not place any additional AK numbers.
You will need to take a copy of your Document into the State DMV office when registering.
STATE WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS NEW LAW

House Fisheries will be receiving a presentation from ASMI on Tuesday 2/26/19 at 10:00 am

ASMI House Fisheries- 2-26-19

The IPHC Annual meeting ended this morning with the announcement of Catch Limits and regulatory actions

For comparison purposes, the adopted commercial fishery catch limit adopted for 2008 for 2C was 3.57 and 3A was 7.35

The IPHC Commissioners also adopted as FISHERY LIMITS the following statements:

a.  A coastwide target SPR of 47{011364765f66369e3b18bfb4bff139a9c8654494d05ca41b290c33562211a86b} for 2019
b.  a share based allocation for IPHC Regulatory Area 2B.  The share will be defined based on a weighted average that assigns 30{011364765f66369e3b18bfb4bff139a9c8654494d05ca41b290c33562211a86b} weight to the current management procedures;s target TCEY distribution and 70{011364765f66369e3b18bfb4bff139a9c8654494d05ca41b290c33562211a86b} on 2B’s recent historical average share of 20{011364765f66369e3b18bfb4bff139a9c8654494d05ca41b290c33562211a86b}.  This formula for defining 2B’s annual allocation will apply for a period of 2019 to 2022.  For 2019, this equates to a share of 17.7{011364765f66369e3b18bfb4bff139a9c8654494d05ca41b290c33562211a86b}; and

c.  a fixed TCEY for IPHC Regulatory Area 2A of 1.65 mlb for a period from 2019-2022, subject to any substantive conservation concerns

The SEASON DATES adopted for commercial fishing in ALASKA and Canada is they may not begin earlier than March 15 and must cease on November 14.  (it was noted that due to the Government shutdown and potential additional shutdown  US may have trouble getting the date implemented on time)

Three other motions made by the commission – I did not catch all the language exactly on the first of the three:

The intent is that  Contracting Party to the Treaty would be responsible for counting it’s U26 mortalities against its collective TCEY.  This change would be intended to take effect for TCEY’s established at the 2020 annual Meeting.

The Commission RECOMMENDED that the IPHC Secretariat expand upon the analysis completed in IPHC-2019-AM095-INFO8  “Treatment and effects of Pacific halibut discard mortality (bycatch) in non-directed fisheries projected for 2019”  to be reviewed by the SRB at its next meeting.  The objective of this work is to estimate lost yield from bycatch of Pacific halibut in non-directed fisheries for the years of 1991-2018.

The Commission AGREED to continue the development of a workplan to explore methods for 1.) improvement of monitoring requirements in directed and non-directed fisheries, and 2.) examining options in each IPHC Regulatory Area for mitigating the impact of bycatch in one IPHC Regulatory Area on available harvest in other IPHC Regulatory Areas.

NOAA has published their 6th edition of the “Black Cod Almanac” which you will find informative. In this edition, they have included some new and ongoing research updates. The highlight of the 2018 assessment was that while we (NOAA) see promise in new year classes of fish, we (NOAA) recommended a precautionary ABC.

And of course, the longline survey calendar for 2019.

Black Cod Almanac 2019

Here are the ADF&G presentations from the KTTF meeting on December 13, 2018

SEAK Commercial RKC presentation_December 2018 KTTF

2018 Tanner Crab Survey Results

GKC KTTF 2018_December meeting

The RPT will be meeting in Petersburg November 29th following the salmon task force meetings

Fall 2018 RPT draft agenda (003)

nakat coho increase 2018WLH (003)

2018 HFH Thomas Bay MSH chum

2018 NSRAA HFH Keta PAR ACCEPTED

Alaska Treaty Fiscal Request 2018

BakewellLakePAR2018

2018 DIPAC Rainbow Trout PAR

2018 8-7 HFH Keta R Chinook NPA APPROVED