The Gillnet Task Force Meeting is December 1st – 8:30 am at Centennial Hall in Juneau. See previous post for draft agenda.

  Area                2008 fishery Catch Limit                  2009 IPHC Staff Recommendation  2C                                 6.21                                                              4.47  3A                               24.22                                                              22.53  3B                               10.90                                                              11.67  4A                                 3.10                                                                2.65  4B                                 1.86                                                                1.94  4CDE                            3.89                                                               2.93    2A                                 1.22                                                                0.86  2B                                 9.00                                                                6.96  Total                           60.40                                                             54.01 November 25, 2008   International Pacific […]

The Gillnet task force meeting is DEcember 1st at 8:30 am, Centennial Hall, Hickel room Gillnet Agenda 2008 The Seine task force meeting is December 2nd 10:00 am, Centennial Hall, Hickel room Seine Agenda 2008

The USDA’s national organic standards board voted to adopt standards for organic farmed fish for the first time. They accepted the proposal of the aquaculture subcommittee, and will allow an organic designation for farmed fish with up to 25% of its feed from wild fishmeal, so long as the fishmeal comes from sustainable sources.

The NMFS this fall withdrew the final rule for the one fish bag limit and then asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit as being moot since the rule had been proposed.  The charter fleet contested the dismissal, but the court granted the dismissal without prejudice.  It is expected that very soon the new one […]

As many of you know, I have been on the State task force looking at ways to limit the charter fleet in State fisheries.  The task force started out looking at limited entry options but could not find a way to create a limited entry program under the constitutional amendment that the State of Alaska […]

The sablefish stock assessment is out for review prior to the plan team meeting.  A quick glance at the assessment looks like the recommendations for sable fish for the 2009 catch limits will be reduced from 2008. ftp://ftp.afsc.noaa.gov/afsc/public/Plan_Team/sablefish.pdf  

SEAFA is putting together a cookbook as a fundraiser and we need your recipes.  In particular we are looking for your favorite seafood, game or good boat galley receipes.  Please email the recipe to seafa@gci.net or mail to SEAFA, 9369 North Douglas Hwy, Juneau AK 99801

We have now set it up so that you can get an email address through seafa.  The address would be your user name @seafa.org.  You can access the email through our webpage – bottom right hand side of the page, click on link called webmail to access the account.  If you are interested in one […]

In 2007, the Juneau Sierra Club petitioned for protection of the Lynn Canal herring under the Endangered Species Act.  In April 2008, NMFS announced that they were denying the petition on Lynn Canal herring as it was not a distinct population segement but that the Southeast stocks were a distinct population segment and it was […]