The Southeast Alaska Pilot’s Association is distributing this flier on sharing waters with large vessels.
Month: June 2018
Platypus Marine BBQ
Platypus Marine will hold their annual ‘Captains and Crews BBQ’ in Petersburg on Wednesday, June 6th at 5pm at the SONs. The event will be catered by Liv and Heidi’s Kjokken & Kito’s Kave. Please view the flier here.
Pubic Outreach meeting on IFQ Program Amendments
In Kodiak during the NPFMC meeting a public outreach session will be held concurrent with the June meeting. The session will be Tuesday, June 5, from 5 pm-6:30 pm in the Pavilion Room, and will provide an open forum for stakeholders to give insight on the present state of the halibut and sablefish IFQ Program and provide direction for future actions that might be considered by the Council and its IFQ Committee. The Council is particularly seeking input on issues related to entry level opportunities and rural participation in the fishery. The listening session will be held in a round-table format chaired by Council member Buck Laukitis. NPFMC and Alaska Fisheries Science Center staff will provide an overview of findings in the 20-Year Program Review that relate to the session’s Read more…
April NPFMC Newsletter
The April NPFMC Newsletter is out. In April the NP Council took final action and created an annual renewal process for chart halibut permits (CHPs). The is meant to provide the Council with more information on the CHP program and to facilitate retirement of non-transferable permits when ownership changes, and improve the ability of enforcement to ensure only valid permits are being used. The NP Council also took action to restrict halibut harvested by sport fishing guide services and possessed with halibut harvested not using sport fishing guide services. Previously these two types of sport harvest had separate limits. Under the Councils new direction, guided and unguided halibut onboard one vessel are held to the stricter management measure of for guided sport fishing including bag Read more…