Friday, April 28th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. ADF&G will hold the Southeast Alaska Northern Southeast Inside (NSEI) and Southern Southeast Inside (SSEI) Subdistricts sablefish industry meeting. The meeting will be delivered via Zoom and hosted at the following location: • Douglas–ADF&G Southeast Regional office, Conferences Rooms A and B, 802 3rd Street, Douglas, AK 99824. Participants can attend by clicking on the meeting link provided below and registering for the meeting. Once registered, an email will be sent containing information about joining the meeting virtually or telephonically. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtc- 6hpzMuHdX7KFhlWoRDhZX71wYIreB6 The agenda, presentations, and recording of the meeting, and other materials will be made available on the ADF&G Read more…
Category: ADF&G Task Force
Southeast Alaska Regional Planning Team, Purse Seine Task Force, and Drift Gillnet Task Force Meeting Schudle
Petersburg. . . The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today the following information about the Southeast Alaska Purse Seine and Drift Gillnet Task Force meetings and the Southeast Regional Planning Team (RPT) meeting. The department holds annual meetings each year between fishery managers, researchers, aquaculture organizations, fishermen, gear group organizations, processing company representatives, and any other interested parties to review the previous salmon season, discuss topics of importance for management of the fisheries, and plan for the following season. Task force meetings have rotated between communities to provide increased access and participation. At the request of participants, task force meetings will be held in conjunction with the Southeast Regional Read more…
ADF&G King/Tanner Task Force
The King/Tanner Task Force Meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday the 13th from 1:00pm-4:30pm. The meeting will be hosted at the ADF&G Southeast Regional office in Douglas and connected via web conferencing at the Tides Inn Conference Room, 307 1st Street in Petersburg. If you cannot make the meeting in person and would like to call in, please use 1-800-315-6338 with access code: 51977.
Salmon Task Force and RPT Meetings in Petersburg
The Salmon Task Force meetings and Regional Planning Team (RPT) meetings will be held at the end of the month in Petersburg. The Regional Planning Team meetings address hatchery release permitting and the agenda is listed below. The meetings will be held in the Petersburg Borough Assembly Chambers at the following times: -Drift Gillnet Task Force meeting is scheduled for November 27, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. -Purse Seine Task Force meeting is scheduled for November 28, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. -Southeast RPT meeting is scheduled for November 29, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The RPT meeting Agenda Action items include: Northern Southeast Regional Planning Team (NSERPT) 1 – DIPAC permit alteration request (PAR) to increase the Read more…
Important Upcoming Dates
Purse Seine Task Force meeting Tuesday, November 28, from 9:00am-5:00 pm in Ketchikan at the Ted Ferry Civic Center Drift Gillnet Task Force meeting Wednesday, November 29, from 9:00-5:00 pm in Ketchikan at the Ted Ferry Civic Center Southeast Alaska Regional Planning Team Thursday, November 30, from 9:00-5:00 pm in Ketchikan at the Ted Ferry Civic Cener North Pacific Fishery Management Council December 4-12, in Anchorage at the Hilton Young Fishermen’s Summit December 6-8 in Anchorage at the Dena’Ina Center King and Tanner Task Force meeting Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 1pm-4pm in Douglas at the ADF&G building and Petersburg at the Tide’s Inn Conference room IPHC Harvest Regulatory Proposal deadline 5pm Saturday, December 23 Board of Fish Southeast Shellfish Read more…
2018 Pink Salmon Harvest Forecast
The 2018 Southeast Alaska Pink salmon harvest forecast is out. The harvest is predicted to be in the average range with a point estimate of 23 million fish (80% confidence interval: 3–44 million fish). This would be below the recent 10-year average harvest of 38 million pink salmon, but near the average even-year harvest since 1960 (25 million). This year, unlike in recent years, ADF&G did not use NOAA’s forecast as a basis for their forecast. The juvenile pink salmon abundance indices from the 2017 trawl survey were the lowest in the 21 years NOAA has been conducting the survey, and about 25% of the previous lowest index. Forecasts using the previous forecast models resulted in negative to <10 million fish prediction for 2018. Instead, ADF&G chose a trend model and the pink Read more…
King And Tanner Crab Task Force Meeting
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and Southeast King and Tanner Task Force (KTTF) will meet between 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 7, 2017. The meeting will be hosted at the ADF&G Southeast Regional office in Douglas and connected via web conferencing at the following locations: Douglas – ADF&G Southeast Regional office, 802 3rd Street, Douglas, AK 99824 Petersburg – Tides Inn Conference Room, 307 1st Street, Petersburg, AK 99833 Agenda items for this meeting include: 2017 Tanner crab survey preliminary results, 2017/18 red king crab fishery summary, 2017/18 Board of Fisheries proposals. Individuals unable to attend in person can call-in from any location and if they have a computer, smartphone, and/or Read more…