Tag Archives: North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Expert Finds Individual Catch Shares Hurt Communities – kmxt 100.1FM – (thank you, Alaska Gal!)
All eyes and ears were on visiting fisheries professor Seth Macinko Tuesday night during the joint session of the Kodiak Island Borough and the City Council. Macinko, who teaches at the University of Rhode Island has worked closely with catch share management programs thought the world and offered hi take on the growing issue in Alaska. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is working toward a catch shares in the Gulf of Alaska to help address bycatch issues. Macinko said the rationalization of groundfish mirrors steps taken in other fisheries around the world. Listen here.
Catch Shares for Central Gulf of Alaska Trawl Groundfish Fisheries? Control Date December 31, 2012, for Qualifying Landings
The National Marine Fisheries Service published its intention to work on rationalization for central Gulf of Alaska trawl groundfish fisheries in the federal register Dec. 26. The Dec. 31 control date was set by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. As the council considers a catch share program for the central Gulf of Alaska, the date will be used to determine catch history. The council has discussed rationalizing the fishery to slow down the fishery and better enable the trawl fleet to minimize bycatch. Read the Register. Alaska Journal
The Kiss of Death!
Good news, bad news for Alaska commercial fishermen in 2013
Depending on their quarry, some commercial fishermen working Alaska waters can expect a productive year in 2013, while others will face tighter limits. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has released its 2013 catch limits and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced its predictions on some major salmon runs. Read More
Hot-button issue of king salmon bycatch will come before fisheries council
In the final day of its December meeting, the council also decided to give the commercial fishing industry more time to work on plans to reduce the incidental catch of chum salmon among the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish fleet. The council asked for a status report on that effort at its April meeting, and may take further action during its October 2013 meeting in Anchorage. An updated analysis will be released for public comment about three weeks before the council takes up either matter. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/hot-button-issue-king-salmon-bycatch-will-come-fisheries-council
North Pacific council seeks more ideas for Bering Sea chum bycatch
Dec 8, 2012The North Pacific Fishery Management Council worked on an initial review of a chum salmon bycatch effort Dec. 7 and 8. The council’s agenda for this meeting includes two efforts to reduce bycatch – one targeting chum caught by Bering Sea pollock fleet, and the other targeting Gulf of Alaska Chinooks. Today’s action was for the Bering Sea. http://www.alaskajournal.com/Blog-Fish-Bytes/April-2012/North-Pacific-council-seeks-more-ideas-for-Bering-Sea-chum-bycatch/
Email from Stephen Taupen – Groundswell Fisheries Movement – Catch Shares
NPFMC approves statement of purpose and need for groundfish rationalization by James Brooks/ [email protected] Kodiak Daily Mirror
Oct 10, 2012 (Wednesday) The North Pacific Fishery Management council has approved a groundfish rationalization motion that includes many of the items sought by the Kodiak Island Borough and city of Kodiak.
On Tuesday, the final day of the weeklong fisheries meeting in Anchorage, the council approved a statement of purpose and need for groundfish rationalization. The statement isn’t a plan or even a blueprint — but it sets the council’s goals as it embarks on a multi-year process that will wholly alter the shape of pollock and cod fishing in the Gulf of Alaska……..The brunt of this,and Stephens response will be in the comment section to save space on the front page, Read More.
Kodiak Daily Mirror — Friday, October 12, 2012 (as published)
Henny Pennys self-declare a crisis in the gulf fisheries
To the Editor:
Wednesday’s article about the North Pacific Fishery Management Council missed the trickery of disaster economics used by central Gulf of Alaska groundfish trawlers. Alaska Groundfish Data Bank and Whitefish Trawler Association representatives boldly declared “there is a crisis in the Gulf groundfisheries.”………Read more
NPFMC directs NMFS to modify new observer program Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took up a new deployment plan for marine observers at its October meeting, asking the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS, to conduct further outreach, clarify a few components and plan to review certain items after one year.
Read more: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/October-Issue-2-2012/Council-directs-NMFS-to-modify-new-observer-program/#ixzz296AM6K1f
Gulf of Alaska – Time to get a handle on bycatch numbers – By Dave Kubiak – peninsulaclarion.com
For years fishery managers and those concerned about bycatch have been plagued by a lack of real numbers on how many king salmon, crab and halibut are being discarded in some of the dirtiest fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska. In the struggle to reduce bycatch of these critical species, we haven’t even had an accurate body count. After prolonged frustration with the current system, a solution appeared to be on the horizon when the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (the Council) took action to restructure the observer program two years ago. At their meeting in Anchorage next week, the Council will review plans for implementation of
http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2012-10-03/time-to-get-a-handle-on-bycatch-numbers
Final action scheduled for charter-commercial halibut split North Pacific Fishery Management Council
By MOLLY DISCHNER Morris News Service – Alaska
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider several alternatives for Pacific halibut allocations at its October meeting.
The council meets today through Tuesday in Anchorage, and has scheduled two full days for halibut issues. The council is slated to take final action on the halibut catch sharing plan for Southeast, or Area 2C, and Southcentral, or Area 3A. The council is tasked with finding a way to split a combined catch limit, set by the International Pacific Halibut Commission, or IPHC, between commercial and charter fishermen.
