SAND POINT COMMERCIAL SALMON FISHERY ANNOUNCEMENT # 01
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will be conducting a preseason fishery stakeholder’s meeting at the Aleutians East Borough building in Sand Point at 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 29. We will teleconference with both King Cove at the Harbor House and False Pass. The purpose of this meeting is to provide all interested parties an opportunity to discuss the upcoming salmon season with ADF&G staff.
Topics covered will include:
2015 salmon outlook
2015 management strategy
2015 department test fishery
Other topics as time permits
To obtain further information, please contact the Sand Point Fish and Game office at (907) 383-2066.
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1. Two Board Positions are open this year. One is a King Cove based seat and the other is a borough-wide seat. If you are interested in supporting Aleutia’s mission please contact the office at 383-5909 or email aleutia@arctic.net
2. The Aleutia Annual Meeting will be held on May the 28th, which is a Thursday, at 7 pm. The location of the meeting will be the Sand Point Aleutians East Borough office, but a telephonic link will be provided. The meeting agenda will include: Introduction of new Aleutia staff, plans for the upcoming season, election of two seats and feedback from buyers. Members may attend and vote and if you are not member you may become one at the meeting.
As of 03/25/2015 70% of the quota has been harvested, 15.286 million which leaves 6.47 million left. Fish and game estimates between five and ten days left of season depending on harvest levels.
Bristol Bay Summer Salmon Run Projection In Millions
Total Run – 53.98
Escapement – 13.46
Commercial Common Property Harvest – 40.52
Bristol Bay Harvest – 38.51
South Peninsula Harvest – 2.01
Alaska Peninsula
Sockeyes (thousands)
Total Run – 419
Escapement – 150
Harvest – 369
Pinks: (Millions)
Total Run – 16.5
Escapement – 3.3
Harvest – 13.2
Note: Fish and Game has little faith in the accuracy of the pink salmon forecast do primarily to the extreme lack of fish in 2013
Chignik
Early Run (thousands)
Total Run – 1,320
Escapement – 150
Harvest – 970
Late Run (thousands)
Total – 1,217
Escapement – 350
Harvest – 967
Total Chignik System (thousands)
Total – 2,536
Harvest – 1,936
Chignik Area – 1,558
SEDM Area – 113
Cape Igvak Section – 235
As of Saturday 03/21/2015 for the Alaska Peninsula 11.5 million pounds of the allotted 21,757,443 pounds has been harvested which leaves 10.5 million pounds left. Landings for the past five days have totaled 1.2 million pounds each day.
As of March 14th for the South Alaska Peninsula pot cod stands at 99 landings with 4,535,227 harvested from the quota of 21,747,443.
For the Chignik area of 10,646,012 pounds available there were 58 landings for the week of March 1-7 at 3,017,881 and for the week of March 8-14 there were 54 landings with 2,512,372 harvested.
Headline:
Upcoming Board of Fish Meeting: Something for Every State-Waters Fisherman
By Ernie Weiss, AEB Natural Resources Director
Next week, the Alaska Board of Fisheries will convene for the last meeting of the 2014/2015 cycle, the only board meeting this cycle to be held in Anchorage. Each end-of-cycle meeting typically covers issues that aren’t discussed at other topic specific meetings and proposals considered out of cycle. The title of this meeting is “Statewide Dungeness Crab, Shrimp, Misc. Shellfish (except Southeast and Yakutat) and Supplemental Issuesâ€, and the agenda has something for every state- water fisherman. (more…)
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There will be a South Alaska Peninsula State-waters Pacific Cod Pre-season Meeting teleconference Friday February 27, 2015 at 10am, moderated by ADF&G Groundfish Manager Mark Stichert.
Teleconference audio will be available at the following sites:
· King Cove Harbor House
· Sand Point Borough office
· False Pass City Office
· Kodiak ADF&G office
· Anchorage AEB office
The meeting is also scheduled to be broadcast on KSDP radio and online at www.apradio.org.
This teleconference meeting will be recorded and archived online for any fishermen who are unable to attend. (more…)
Fisheries Bills in the 2015/2016 Alaska Legislative session
AEB Fishermen’s Meeting Teleconference
There will be a South Alaska Peninsula State-waters Pacific Cod Pre-season Meeting
teleconference Friday February 27, 2015 at 10am, moderated by ADF&G Groundfish
Manager Mark Stichert.
ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
DIVISION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES
NEWS RELEASE
Sam Cotten, Commissioner
Jeff Regnart, Director
Contact: Kodiak Office
Mark Stichert 351 Research Court
Groundfish Management Biologist Kodiak, Alaska 99615
Phone: (907) 486-1840
Date Issued: 02/13/2015
Fax: (907) 486-1824
2015 South Alaska Peninsula Area State-Waters Pacific Cod
Pot Gear Season Opening Date
The South Alaska Peninsula Area state-waters Pacific cod season for vessels using pot gear will
open at noon Saturday March 7, 2015 unless delayed by marine weather forecast. (more…)
The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) completed its Ninety-first Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC on January 30, 2015. More than 250 halibut industry stakeholders attended the meeting, with over 75 more participating in web broadcasts of the public sessions.
The Commission is recommending to the governments of Canada and the United States catch limits for 2015 totaling 29,223,000 pounds, displayed in the following table by regulatory area.
From Troy Keaton NOAA:
As of all data received by NMFS (data through Jan 30), we show 7.7 million pounds has been harvested with approximately 3.7 million remaining. Catch rates have been fluctuating and expected weather this week may slow down catch rates. Average daily catch was around 250k so based on that we have a VERY rough projection of a closure date of between Feb 10 and Feb 14. Caveat: These data and daily rates are expected to change and we are too far out from a closure to give a precise closure date.
The South Alaska Peninsula Area state-waters Pacific cod season for all vessels using pot gear will close at NOON Monday, March 24, 2014. Inseason catch estimates indicate the pot gear harvest allocation will be attained at the time of the closure. (more…)
