Pink salmon. Credit: NOAA
Alaska Fisheries Management Reports
Fishery program reports on data transfers, quota shares, allocations, cooperatives, cost recovery, arbitration, crab seasons and TAC, ex-vessel value and volume prices, program development, and annual reports.
Amendment 80
Cost Recovery
American Fisheries Act
Pollock Bering Sea Subarea Inshore Cooperative Allocations
- Allocations: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 (Jan.–Aug.), 2010 (Sept.–Dec.), 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006: Table 10, 2006: Table 11, 2005: Table 10, 2005: Table 11, 2004: Table 10, 2004: Table 11, 2003: Table 10, 2003: Table 11, 2002: Table 11, 2002: Table 12, 2001: Table 11, 2001: Table 12, 2000: Emergency Rule Table 1, 2000: Emergency Rule Table 2 (PDF)
- Cost Recovery Reports
- Cooperative Information Tables: Table 1: GOA pollock, Table 2: GOA Pacific cod, Table 3: GOA Shallow-water flatfish, Table 4: GOA deep-water flatfish (PDF)
BSAI Crab
Annual Reports
Applications
Arbitration
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Crab Arbitration Organizations: 2014/15–2005/06 (ZIP)
Cost Recovery
Delivery Exemptions
- Crab North or South Regional Delivery Requirements: 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14 (PDF)
- Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab West Region Delivery Requirements: 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14, 2012/13, 2011/12 (PDF)
Economic Data Report
- Crab Economic Data Report for Year 1998, 2001 and 2004: by vessel ID, by vessel name (PDF)
Pools and Use Caps
- Annual Vessel IFQ Use Caps: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18 - 2012/13 (ZIP)
- PQS and IPQ Use Caps: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18–2012/13 (ZIP)
- Quota Share and Individual Fishing Quota Use Caps: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18–2012/13 (ZIP)
- Quota Share and Processor Quota Share Pools and Ratios: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18–2012/13 (ZIP)
Seasons and TAC
- Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- Bering Sea Snow Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- Bering Sea Tanner Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- Bristol Bay Red King Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- Pribilof King Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- St. Matthew Island King Crab: 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19, 2016/17, 2015/16 (PDF)
- Western Aleutian Islands Red King Crab: 2007/08–closure (PDF)
CDQ Halibut, Crab and Groundfish
Cost Recovery
Central GOA Rockfish
Allocations
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Allocations for cooperatives and fixed gear entry level fisheries: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (XLS)
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Catcher Processor Sideboard Limits: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (XLS).
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For 2018-current year, see groundfish harvest specifications:
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2021
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Table 23 Rockfish Sideboards
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Table 25 Halibut PSC Sideboards
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2020
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2019
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2018
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Cost Recovery
Charter Halibut
Summary Reports
- Charter Halibut Permit (CHP) Transfers by year, area, numbers of anglers and whether or not the transfer was part of an Entire Business Sale: 2023 (XLSX), 2022 (XLSX), 2021 (XLS), 2020 (XLS), 2019 (XLS), 2018–2017 (ZIP)
- Halibut Permit (CHP) Transfers by year, month, area, prices, and whether or not the transfer was part of an Entire Business Sale: 2023 (XLSX), 2022 (XLSX), 2021 (XLS), 2020 (XLS), 2019 (XLS), 2018–2012 (ZIP)
- Charter Halibut Program Limited Access Implementation Report (PDF)
- Guided Angler Fish (GAF) Program Annual Reports (PDF)
- Guided Angler Fish (GAF) Transfers: 2023 (XLSX), 2022 (XLSX), 2021 (XLS), 2020 (XLS), 2019 (XLS), 2018–2014 (ZIP)
- IFQ to GAF Conversion Factor (PDF)
Groundfish
- Inseason Management Annual Reports to the Council
- NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/AKR-10 - Investigation of Weight Loss in Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) Due to Exsanguination, November 2011
IFQ Halibut/Sablefish
Cost Recovery
- Annual Ex-Vessel and Volume Prices - Halibut (XLSX)
- Annual Ex-Vessel and Volume Prices - Sablefish (XLSX)
- Cost Recovery Reports
Publications
- Development of the Individual Fishing Quota Program for Sablefish and Halibut Longline Fisheries off Alaska
- NPFMC Evolution of Catch Share Management - Lessons From the North Pacific (PDF, 14 pages)
- CFEC Holdings of Limited Entry Permits, Sablefish Quota Shares, and Halibut Quota Shares Through 1998 and Data on Fishery Gross Earning: List of Reports
- Characterizing Crew and Fuel Price Impacts: A Survey of Pacific Halibut and Sablefish Quota Share Holders, NOAA Technical Memorandum
- Pacific Halibut–Sablefish IFQ Report (Report to the Fleet)
- Report on Holdings of Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) by Residents of Selected Gulf of Alaska Fishing Communities 1995–2015 - Community Quota Entity (CQE)
Quota Share
- Limits on QS Holdings (PDF, 2 pages)
- Quota Share Pools and TACs: 2023 (PDF, 1 page), 2022 (PDF, 1 page), 2021 (PDF, 1 page), 2020 (PDF, 1 page), 2019 (PDF, 1 page), 2018–2013 (ZIP)
- Quota Share Use Caps and Vessel IFQ Caps: 2023 (PDF), 2022 (PDF), 2021 (PDF), 2020 (PDF), 2019 (PDF), 2018–2013 (ZIP)
Research Reports
- AFSC Sablefish Research and Longline Survey Reports
- Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission (CFEC) IFQ Research Reports: Halibut 1995–1998, Sablefish 1995–1998
- NOAA Catch Share Performance Indicator Series: The economic performance of U.S. catch share programs, North Pacific Halibut Individual Fishing Quota Program
- International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) Research Surveys
Transfers and Statistics
- Changes in Halibut Quota Share Between Initial Issuance and Currently Used: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018–2013 (ZIP)
- IFQ Crewmember Data: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018–2013 (ZIP)
- Transfer Report - Changes Under Alaska's Halibut IFQ Program 1995–2014: Halibut, Sablefish (PDF)
- Transfers of Quota Shares and Individual Fishing Quota: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018–2013 (ZIP)
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