23. Flat Funding Threatens Fish and Game Operations (3/9) MARKETING
24. WWF, pollock fishers unite for a sustainable fishery (3/7)
25. Massive Fish Retailer Costco Goes Green; Does It Matter? (3/3)
26. Council backs national seafood marketing effort (KFSK) (3/10)
27. Seafood Business Magazine (Mar 2011)
28. Going green. ASMI builds Global Trust certification program
29. With Ash Wednesday comes seafood promotions (3/9) MISC
30. Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now (3/6)
31. 2011 WWF competition to net best hook, line and sinker announced (3/1)
FEDERAL
1. Good Samaritans rescue five off vessel aground near King Cove (3/6). A good Samaritan crew on the vessel Just In Case rescued five fishermen after The Capt’n Andrew, a 57-foot fishing vessel, ran aground on Bold Cape four miles southeast of King Cove Sunday morning.
The fishing vessels Golden Dawn and Just In Case responded while the Coast Guard put out an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast requesting local vessels that could safely assist the crew of the Capt'n Andrew which was aground.
A crewmember of the Just In Case deployed a skiff and took the 5-person crew off the partially submerged vessel and transferred them to the Just In Case while the Golden Dawn crew relayed information to the Coast Guard. Two Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters forward-deployed in St. Paul were launched but were not needed.
"In Alaska, good samaritans often play an essential role in remote rescues, when vast distances can delay a Coast Guard response," said Jennifer Whitcomb, search and rescue controller at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Juneau.
The Just In Case safely transported all five crewmembers to King Cove with no reported injuries.
The Capt’n Andrew reportedly is carrying approximately 2000 gallons of diesel fuel. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage is investigating.
Weather on scene was reportedly 10-knot winds and less than a mile of visibility. Link
2. NPFMC. Items for Mar/Apr Meeting Agenda
3. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak conducts overflight of the Capt'n Andrew near King Cove (3/9)
KING COVE, Alaska - The 57-foot fishing vessel, Capt'n Andrew, sits hard aground on Bold Cape four miles southeast of King Cove March 7, 2011, with a reported 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board. Personnel from Magone Marine Services Inc. based in Unalaska plan to assess the situation and begin a salvage operation of the King Cove-based Capt'n Andrew. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Dan Buress.
4. Fisherman medevacked after fall from dock (3/3). A Sitka man is in critical condition at Harborview Hospital in Seattle after sustaining injuries in a fall off a dock Wednesday (3-2-11) afternoon. Longtime resident and commercial fisherman Jay Clifton was carrying mail down the ladder at Seafood Producers Cooperative when he slipped and dropped the remaining twenty or twenty-five feet into his Carolina Skiff.
Sitka EMS personnel were called to the scene at 5:17 PM. Clifton was stabilized at Sitka Community Hospital, and medevacked later that night to Harborview.
According to family members, Clifton suffered serious head trauma and numerous other injuries, including twelve broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Clifton was still on a ventilator as of this afternoon (Thu 3-3-11), but he was reportedly responding to verbal commands from doctors by raising and lowering his hands.
Family members say they appreciate the work of Sitka’s EMS personnel and medical staff, and they are grateful for the support they have received from the community so far. Link
5. National Ocean Observing System to See Marine Animal Migration, Adaptation Strategies (3/4). For the first time, data from electronic tags attached to marine animals will be incorporated into the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®). The addition of this biological component will help scientists better understand how marine animals move with the flow of tides and currents and provide insight into how they may alter their behavior or migration patterns in response to climate change.
"Data from these animals are transforming the way scientists study our waters and opening up new data sources,” said Zdenka Willis, U.S. IOOS® director. "With the broader science community becoming more engaged and linking to IOOS, we will be able to provide information more readily to the state and federal officials who need it most.” More
6. Deal reached to manage fishing in Northeast Pacific (3/7). VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Countries bordering the North Pacific Ocean have struck a deal that environmentalists said on Monday will help protect 16.1 million square miles (41.7 million sq km) of ocean floor from a destructive technique called bottom trawl fishing.
The agreement calls for the creation of an organization to manage sea bottom fisheries in the North Pacific, and puts an immediate cap on expansion of bottom trawl fishing in international waters stretching from Hawaii to Alaska.
The deal was reached last week in Vancouver by the United States, Japan, Canada, China, South Korea, Russia and Taiwan after nearly five years of negotiations.
Environmentalists have long complained about the damage done to sensitive ecosystems and marine life on the ocean floor by boats that use weighted nets and other fishing gear that drag along the seabed. More
NOAA: U.S. 'Turning a Corner' in Ending Overfishing (3/8)
Hearing Website (Includes Video Webcast)
Majority Statement · Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
· Senator Mark Begich Chairman U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Witness Panel 1 · Dr. Douglas DeMaster Acting Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
· Mr. Eric C. Schwaab Assistant Administrator NMFS
Witness Panel 2 · Mr. William R. Bird Attorney at Law and Private Angler
· Mr. Vito Giacalone Policy Director Northeast Seafood Coalition
· Dr. William C. Hogarth Interim Director, Florida Institute of Oceanography University of South Florida
· Ms. Stephanie Madsen Executive Director At Sea Processors Association
8. Judge won't force Exxon to pay for further oil spill cleanup (3/8). Alaska U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland ruled Monday against a request that he force Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for the cleanup of oil left on the Prince William Sound shoreline from the 1989 tanker Valdez spill.
The request came from former University of Alaska marine science professor Rick Steiner, who filed a court motion to try and force resolution of the case. Steiner said he was frustrated because the state and federal governments filed a $92 million claim against Exxon in 2006 but never tried to collect the money.
Government lawyers said they're waiting for studies on the remaining oil and the effectiveness of cleanup techniques before pursuing the claim against Exxon. The oil company, meanwhile, says it doesn't have any obligation to pay.
Judge Holland last week expressed dissatisfaction with how long the case is taking, saying "it really is time to put this whole thing to bed." Holland also said in his Monday ruling that there's a public perception it's taken far too long.
But the judge concluded that doesn't justify him forcing a resolution at this point. More
9. Voices from the Waterfront. Meet Commercial Fisher Linda Behnken (3/9). In this month’s "Voices From the Waterfront,” meet Alaska’s Linda Behnken.
Behnken has been fishing for halibut, sablefish and salmon in Alaskan waters since 1982. With her husband, she co-owns the Woodstock, a 40-foot boat home-ported in Sitka, a small community in Alaska’s southeast. Behnken is the executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association, and she served on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council for nine years. More
10. Unisea to pay $1.9M for Unalaska pollution (3/9). A Seattle-based seafood processing company that operates mostly in Alaska will pay $1.9 million in penalties and for the cost of cleaning up ammonia and other waste it discharged from its plant in the Aleutians.
Unisea agreed to the payments to settle allegations it violated federal and state environmental laws, U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today.
Beginning in 2005, the company discharged ammonia and other pollutants from its facility in Unalaska into surrounding waters. It did so without a permit, in violation of the Clean Water Act, Loeffer said. The company also agreed that it failed to notify authorities of two large releases of ammonia from its facility in December 2007, a violation of federal and state environmental reporting laws.
Unisea also must perform a benthic survey of the sea floor, potentially clean up the site's fish waste pile, as well as implement a comprehensive environmental compliance plan to prevent future violations.
Unisea operates its principal seafood processing facility on southeast Amaknak Island, in Unalaska. Over a three-year period, the company released anhydrous ammonia as well as propylene glycol, unscreened seafood processing wastewater, crab waste, stick water, fishmeal, and foam from outfalls at its Dutch Harbor facility. That violated the terms of a 2003 EPA permit, the government said. More Juneau Empire version (3/11) Dutch Harbor Fisherman (3/9)
Unisea Press Release (3/9) KUCB (3/9)
11. MCAF Marine Debris Presentation to Fish Caucus (Video) (3/8) About 50 minutes
12. Coast Guard's Queen of the Fleet shifts, Acushnet being decommissioned (3/10). The 67-year-old Cutter Acushnet, the Coast Guard's "Queen of the Fleet", will be decommissioned during a ceremony at Base Support Unit Ketchikan Friday at 2 p.m.
The Acushnet served as a medium-endurance cutter in the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean. Primary missions included search and rescue, homeland security, maritime law enforcement, and environmental protection. The cutter’s motto, "Juvate, Servate, Confirmate,” means "Help, Save, Strengthen.”
The Acushnet was crowned "Queen of the Fleet" after the decommissioning ceremony of the Coast Guard Cutter Storis on Feb. 8, 2007. The title representing the oldest Coast Guard cutter in service will be passed to the Cutter Smilax, a 100-foot inland construction tender commissioned in 1944 and based in Ft. Macon, N.C. More
13. USCG - testimony re FY 2012 budget request (3/10). The US Coast Guard issued a news release stating that Admiral Robert Papp, Commandant, USCG, testified before the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security Appropriations about the Coast Guard's budget request for fiscal year 2012. Courtesy Bryant’s Maritime Blog
14. Possible Secretary of Commerce Candidates
Google CEO Eyed as Commerce Secretary (3/11)
Potential Commerce successor has close ties to EDF (3/10)
US Trade Rep Ron Kirk a top candidate for next Commerce Secretary: report (3/9) Eric Schmidt's Next Job: U.S. Secretary of Commerce? (3/10)
STATE
15. BOF Preliminary Summary of Upper Cook Inlet Meeting
16. Commercial salmon bounty forecast by Alaska biologists (3/4). State biologists are predicting a salmon bounty this summer.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Thursday projected the salmon harvest to be the fifth largest since statehood at 203 million fish, up more than 25 percent from last year's healthy harvest.
The predictions by species:
• Reds: 45.1 million fish, up 11 percent.
• Silvers: 4.7 million fish, up 18 percent
• Pinks: 133.7 million fish, up 24 percent
The state did not forecast the king salmon return because the Southeast quota is set under the terms of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, and the Pacific Salmon Commission won't release those numbers before late March.
Last year, 378,000 kings -- which at $3.44 a pound are far more valuable than any other species -- were landed.
"Over the years, we've made a lot of investment that gives us really good information -- particularly in fisheries like Bristol Bay sockeye that are so valuable," said Geron Bruce, head of the state's commercial fisheries division. "In other places, we don't have as much information, so there's more variation."
Last year, commercial fisherman in Alaska exceeded the preseason projection of 137 million salmon with more than 171 million fish -- a 25 percent bump.
Red salmon account for two-thirds of Alaska's total salmon value and prices have been rising.
At Kodiak last year, sockeyes fetched a base price of $1.49 per pound, up from $1.11 last year. Prices at Prince William Sound were $2.25, compared with $1.72. For Southeast, sockeye prices were reported at $2, an increase of 75 cents per pound.
Two-thirds of Alaska's total sockeye harvest comes from Bristol Bay, and fishermen there received a base of 95 cents this summer, up from 70 cents a pound last year.
Commercial fishermen use the forecasts to project how much labor and equipment they'll need next summer.
"Once we get into the return, though, the forecasts become less and less significant," Bruce said. "We go off observed data. Link
17. Fish Board rejects new dipnet restrictions (3/4). The Alaska Board of Fisheries has decided not to restrict the Kenai Peninsula's popular salmon dipnetting fisheries.
The seven-member board Thursday and Friday either voted down or took no action on dozens of proposals including reducing the household limit to 10 fish per season in the Cook Inlet personal-use salmon fisheries, and requiring dipnetters to take a class and obtain a education card before receiving a dipnet permit.
Thousands of Alaska households participate in Cook Inlet's resident-only dipnet fisheries. State records show that nearly 400,000 salmon in the Kenai River dipnet fishery were harvested last July.
Many of the proposals to restrict Peninsula dipnetting were filed by Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishermen who are worried about the rapid growth of the dipnet fisheries and the increased fishing time and geographic restrictions that are making it more difficult for commercial fishermen to stay in business in Cook Inlet.
On Thursday, fisheries board member John Jensen, a Petersburg commercial fisherman, called dipnetting a "subsistence fishery on steroids" and said he doesn't want commercial fishing families to be harmed. Jensen also said he remains unsure of how to control the dipnet fisheries' growth "without creating chaos."
Wasilla dipnetter Ken Frederico called the board vote results a "slam dunk" for dipnet fishermen. More
18. Tanner season wraps up as Golden King Crab closure rescinded (Petersburg) (3/3). One crab season concluded yesterday, and another got an extension, as harvest levels have not yet met pre-season guidelines.
After experiencing two weather delays, the 2011 Southeast Tanner crab season wrapped up Wednesday, March 2 at noon, after 12 days of fishing.
The Golden king crab season that started on Feb. 18 — along with the Tanner season — was slated to conclude on Friday, March 4 in the East Central Area, but that deadline was rescinded when Alaska Department of Fish & Game biologists calculated that the guideline harvest limit would not be reached at that time.
"It’s been crazy,” ADF&G shellfish biologist Joe Stratman said Wednesday. "Weather has been an issue this year.”
The closure was rescinded partially because there was little effort made to catch king crab during a severe windstorm that featured freezing spray and single digit temperatures over the past weekend. Catch rates also started going down as the season went on, Stratman said. More
19. Being there no easy feat (3/6). After two weeks holed up in Anchorage hotels to attend the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting at the Egan Center, some central Kenai Peninsula fishermen were restless.
"I used to live in Kasilof up until 10 days ago," said Robert Williams, president of the Kenai Peninsula Fisherman's Association said Wednesday.
Gary Hollier, vice-president of the Kenai Peninsula Fisherman's Association, said it's a significant cost for him to attend the meeting and it limits the access for other Peninsula people wishing to attend.
"It's a $2,500 to $3,000 dollar bill to come up to Anchorage," said the Kenai resident.
Eighty-five percent of the proposals on Upper Cook Inlet Finfish concern the Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
"Obviously there's some Northern District issues here that impact the Valley but the bulk of these issues are Kenai/Kasilof," Hollier said. "It'd be prudent to think that the board and the state of Alaska would have the fisheries board meet in the area where most of the proposals are addressing the issues."
According to a Department of Fish and Game flyer explaining the Board of Fisheries process, "meetings are generally held in the region whose proposals are being considered."
Jim Marcotte, executive director of the board, said the board set the meeting dates and location of the 2011 Upper Cook Inlet Meeting in October of 2009.
"The board chose the location of Anchorage because it's the most central of all shareholders," he said.
The last fisheries board meeting in Soldotna was held in February of 1999, he said. All of the following meetings were held in Anchorage. Part of the 1999 meeting was also held in Wasilla to address Northern District issues. More
20. FITC fate to be decided in coming months (3/7). The fate of the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center (FITC) on Kodiak’s Near Island will be decided in the coming months, based partly on information gathered by a newly created review committee.
The goal of the committee, formed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) chancellor, is to assess FITC’s current and recent past value to the fish processing industry and, more generally, to the fishing industry in terms of services and research products provided.
The committee will also review FITC’s programs and services in light of industry need and current contributions toward fulfilling UAF’s mission as a land grant and sea grant university.
"It’s a very serious and important mission that we have,” said Jeff Stephan, one of the review committee members and vice chairman of the FITC policy council and Sea Grant Advisory Committee. "It has great impact not only to the community of Kodiak but the seafood industry in Alaska and workforce development issues. Not to mention there’s a tremendous amount of valuable research over there at FITC.” More
21. Castellini selected as dean of School of Fisheries (3/9). Marine biologist Michael Castellini has been named dean of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has served as interim dean since last June.
Castellini said supporting research and professional service in fisheries and marine science across Alaska will be an integral part of his work.
A marine biologist who specializes in marine mammal physiology, Castellini has published more than 100 scientific journal articles and book chapters, served on more than 40 graduate student committees and participated in more than 20 scientific field expeditions on land, sea and ice. He has served in a variety of administrative roles including scientific director of the Alaska SeaLife Center, the director of the Institute of Marine Science, director of the Coastal Marine Institute and the associate dean of SFOS. He has also been active in public outreach throughout his career. Castellini holds a doctorate in marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Link
22. Harbor Fixture (Tug KODIAK KING) Departing Soon (3/10). Kodiak's harbor will soon be losing a familiar fixture. The Kodiak King, a tug that's served the local fleet for some four decades is being transferred to Southeast. KMXT's Jacob Resneck reports. Audio/Scroll down
23. Flat Funding Threatens Fish and Game Operations (3/9). Managers at the Kodiak office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game warn that current funding levels could cause cut backs in core operations for the commercial fisheries division. This comes as legislatures in Juneau puts together a budget for the agency.
Regional Supervisor of Commercial Fisheries Steve Honnold says increased personnel costs coupled with stagnant funding levels has forced cost-cutting of key programs by reducing operations at fish counting stations on river weirs.
The weirs are used to track escapement of salmon that allow area management biologists to manage Kodiak's salmon fisheries. Last year the period of operations for weirs had to be shortened and that could happen again this summer. With less hard escapement data from the weirs, Honnold says biologists are forced to be more conservative on how often they can open a fishery. KMXT Audio/More
MARKETING
24. WWF, pollock fishers unite for a sustainable fishery (3/7). The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has welcomed the commitment of the Russian Pollock Catchers Association (PCA) for its responsible approach to pollock fishing and ongoing efforts to endorse high standards of the Code for Responsible Fisheries in the management and production of the country’s fisheries.
WWF believes that it is both necessary and helpful to the growth of the PCA programme on "critical points" to improve the institutional regulation of Russian fisheries.
The two groups recently met to talk about the certification of the Russian pollock fishery by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). In 2008, the Russian Alaska pollock fishery was pre-assessed according to MSC standards and, in 2009, the process of full assessment of the Russian pollock fishery began.
The Russian Alaska pollock fishery in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Russian Federation and the US constitutes the largest fishery in the world second only to the Peruvian anchovy fishery. It is Russia’s largest fishery.
PCA affirmed that it backs the concept of creating a Fishery Improvement Plan (FIP) for the fishery, and came up with a list of agreed innovations in management and supervising plus the timing of their implementation.
"The parties believe that [they are] improving the existing system of assessment of catch, discards and bycatch, and also note the absence in [Russia’s] full-fledged system of traceability of origin of fish, resulting in [a] "window of vulnerability" for [the] entry of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) catches, fishing in legitimate traffic and risks to the supply chain,” the groups said in a joint statement.
Further, WWF and PCA both asserted a need for targeted action originating from fishers, the control and monitoring bodies and the scientific and expert community in order to eradicate existing weaknesses in the management and monitoring system.
Both parties intend to jointly implement steps such as the following:
· Promote the inclusion of proposals agreed to by the WWF and PCA in the National Plan to Combat IUU Fishing and seek its approval;
· Participate in the evaluation of draft agreements between Russia as well as Japan and China, port control, and of joint orders of the Federal Security Service and the Federal Agency for Fisheries;
· Prepare for extensive talks on fishing community proposals for the possible establishment of a fund that would finance improvements in the monitoring and implementation of best practices. Link
25. Massive Fish Retailer Costco Goes Green; Does It Matter? (3/3). Greenpeace hopes that Costco's decision to halt sales of unsustainably farmed fish will impact the industry.
Maybe it was shame. Maybe their corporate social responsibility heart grew three sizes last Friday. Whatever the reason, Costco, the nation's largest retail fish buyer, will halt sales of 12 varieties of fish, certified as unsustainably farmed by the Marine Stewardship Council. The decision has Greenpeace congratulating itself for pressuring yet another targeted supplier to buckle under its annual shaming (er, report). As the latest big name to adopt sustainable practices, Costco stands to impact the majority, if not the entirety, of the $31 billion U.S. industry.
Costco has consistently placed near the bottom of Greenpeace's annual fish sustainability report. And the environmental group created one of their colorful campaigns against the retail giant, dubbed, "Oh no Costco." (A snarky campaign against Trader Joe's a year earlier titled "Traitor Joes" coerced the specialty grocery retailer into changing its buying behavior.) According to the campaign website, "Over the past two-and-a-half years, Greenpeace has repeatedly asked Costco about its seafood policies and practices, both in preparation for our original Carting Away the Oceans report and for subsequent retailer performance updates: The company has failed to respond to any of Greenpeace’s inquiries."
Fast Company also reached out to Costco. The company doesn't clearly post media contact numbers and calls seeking a spokesperson were directed to a voicemail at Costco HQ. Messages were not returned by post time.
Not content with simple digital shaming, Greenpeace chartered a blimp adorned with the spoofy campaign phrase, "Costco Wholesale Ocean Destruction." Eight months later, voilá, Costco issued a sweeping decree to eliminate all varieties of unsustainably captured fish--although we were unable to confirm a direct connection between the campaign and the decision (again, calls were not returned). More
26. Council backs national seafood marketing effort (KFSK) (3/10). Petersburg’s city council this week voted to support the creation of a national seafood marketing fund. That’s despite some misgivings about partnering with states and organizations that may want to market farmed fish or even genetically modified seafood.
27. Seafood Business Magazine (Mar 2011)
28. Going green. ASMI builds Global Trust certification program
29. With Ash Wednesday comes seafood promotions (3/9). With Ash Wednesday kicking off the Lenten season, quick-service chains, white-tablecloth restaurants and supermarket chains across the United States are spotlighting their seafood offerings over the next few weeks.
Quick-service seafood heavyweight Long John Silver’s is promoting its Seafood Feast for Lent, including Alaska pollock, shrimp and a crab cake for just USD 5.99, which is available through 24 April. More
MISC
30. Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now (3/6). Climate researchers have long warned that the Arctic is particularly vulnerable to global warming. The dramatic shrinking of sea ice in areas circling the North Pole highlights those concerns.
A new report finds that the disappearing ice has apparently triggered another dramatic event - one that could disrupt the entire ecosystem of fish, shellfish, birds, and marine mammals that thrive in the harsh northern climate.
Each summer, an explosion of tiny ocean-dwelling plants and algae, called phytoplankton, anchors the Arctic food web.
But these vital annual blooms of phytoplankton are now peaking up to 50 days earlier than they did just 14 years ago, satellite data show. More
31. 2011 WWF competition to net best hook, line and sinker announced (3/1). Fishermen, backyard inventors, students and others have been invited to submit entries for the best new fishing gear to reduce bycatch.
Leading entries in the fifth International Smart Gear Competition will be in the running for $US 57,500 in prizes. The competition will be accepting submissions from March 1 to Aug. 31, 2011.
This biennial initiative aims to find innovative ways to make fishing gear more environmentally friendly by reducing the capture of unwanted marine life, typically termed ‘bycatch’.
"WWF’s goal with the Smart Gear competition is to inspire innovative ideas for environmentally-friendly fishing gear,” said Dr. Bill Fox, Vice President of Fisheries for WWF-US. More
Fish Calendar 2011
Mar 9-11. NOAA Science Advisory Board, DC Agenda Mar 14-18. Pacific cod CIE review, AFSC Seattle
Mar 20-22. Boston Seafood Show
Mar 22. Observer Advisory Committee, Anchorage Agenda
Mar 22-24. Copper River Delta Science Symposium, Cordova Mar 22-25. 4th Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum, Bethel
Mar 22-26. BOF King and Tanner Crab (Statewide, except Southeast/Yakutat) and Supplemental Issues, Anchorage Proposals
Mar 28-Apr 5. NPFMC, Anchorage
Mar 29. MAP/IMS Refrigeration workshop – Anchorage
Mar 31. At-sea Processors Association Job Fair, Anchorage
Apr 8. BOF 2012 proposals due for PWS, Yakutat, Southeast, PCod, Misc Shellfish
Apr 9-12. Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium
Apr 14-16. ComFish Kodiak
Apr 17. Alaska State Legislature adjourns, Juneau
Apr 21. Bering Sea Fisheries Conference, Red Lion SEATAC
Apr 25-26. Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel Spring 2011 Meeting, DC
Apr 26-27. NPRB Advisory Panel
Apr 28-29. NPRB
Apr 29. Comments due Strategic Action Plans for the Nine Priority Objectives for Implementation of the National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes.
May (TBD). Pacific cod modeling teleconference
May 3-5. 2011 European Seafood Exposition, Brussels
May 3-5. Council Chairs, Charleston, SC
May 3-6. GeoHab 2011, Helsinki
May 4-6. International Symposium on Circle Hooks, Miami
May 7. Alaska Fishermen’s Memorial and Blessing of the Fleet, Juneau
May 9-13. Crab plan team, Juneau
May 10-12. Marine Mammal Commission, New Orleans
May 10-13. Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum, (Catch Accounting & Monitoring) Beaufort, NC
May 11-13. North American Association of Fisheries Economists, Honolulu, HI
May 14. Second Annual Juneau Maritime Festival
May 24-26. MAFAC, Key West, FL
May 25-26. ASMI Board and Consumer Advisory Panel, Cordova
Jun 6-14. NPFMC, Nome
Jun 7-9. Capitol Hill Oceans Week, DC
Jun 8-10. Global Food Alaska Conference & Showcase, Soldotna
Jul 17-21. Coastal Zone 2011, Chicago
Jul 27-30. 2011 Copper River Wild! Salmon Festival, Cordova
Aug 29-Sep 2. Groundfish Plan Team
Sep 4-8. American Fisheries Society annual meeting, Seattle.
Sep 13-14. NPRB Advisory Panel
Sep 14-17. Wakefield Symposium. Fishing People of the North. Anchorage
Sep 15-16. NPRB
Sep 27-Oct 5. NPFMC, Unalaska
Oct 11-12. BOF Work session ACRs, cycle organization, stocks of concern, Anchorage
Oct 13-17. BOF. Pacifc Cod for PWS, Cook Inlet, Kodiak, Chignik and South Alaska Peninsula, Anchorage
Oct 14-22. PICES 2011 Annual Meeting, Khabarovsk, Russia
Oct 23-28. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Annual Meeting, Nanaimo BC
Nov 8-11. Wakefield Symposium Nov 14-18. Groundfish Plan Team
Nov 16-17. Resource Development Council: Alaska Resources Conference, Anchorage
Nov 30-Dec 1. IPHC Interim Meeting
Dec 1-6. BOF. Prince William Sound and Upper Copper/Upper Susitna Finfish, Anchorage
Dec 5-13. NPFMC, Anchorage
Fish Calendar 2012
Jan 18-24. BOF. Southeast and Yakutat Crab, Shrimp, Misc. Shellfish (including Dungeness, King, and Tanner), Petersburg
Jan 24-27. IPHC Annual Meeting, Anchorage
Feb. Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting, Hawaii
Feb. NPFMC, Seattle
Feb 15-17. 2012 SWAMC Annual Membership Meeting, Anchorage
Feb 16-20. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vancouver
Feb 24-Mar 4. BOF. Southeast and Yakutat Finfish (including salmon, herring, and groundfish), Ketchikan
Mar 20-23. BOF. Statewide Dungeness Crab, Shrimp, Misc. Shellfish (except Southeast and Yakutat and Supplemental Issues), Anchorage
Mar 26-Apr 3. NPFMC, Anchorage
May 12-14. Second PICES/ICES/IOC Symposium on "Effects of climate change on the world’s oceans” as one of the official events related to Ocean Expo-2012, Yeosu, Korea
Jun 6. NPFMC, Kodiak
Jun 29-30. Fish Ireland, Killybegs, Donegal
Oct 1. NPFMC, Anchorage
Dec 3. NPFMC, Anchorage
Fish Calendar 2013
Jan 22-25. IPHC Annual Meeting, Canada
Feb 14-18. American Association for the Advancement of Science
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