Alaska Fisheries Management Reports

Amendment 80

Cost Recovery

• Cost Recovery Reports

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

• Crab Rationalization Annual Reports and Summaries

Applications

• Applications Received - IFQ, IPQ, and Coop
• Applications NOT Received (CSV)

Arbitration

• Crab Arbitration Organizations: 2014/15–2005/06 (ZIP)

Cost Recovery

• Cost Recovery Reports

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

• Cost Recovery Reports

Central GOA Rockfish

Allocations

• Allocations for cooperatives and fixed gear entry level fisheries: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (XLS)

• Catcher Processor Sideboard Limits: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (XLS).

  • For 2018 to the current year, see GOA groundfish harvest specifications

Cost Recovery

• Cost Recovery Reports

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

Annual Ex-Vessel and Volume Prices

• Annual Ex-Vessel and Volume Prices - Halibut (XLSX)
• Annual Ex-Vessel and Volume Prices - Sablefish (XLSX)

Cost Recovery

• 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)

More Information

• Fisheries Catch and Landings Reports
• Licenses and Permits Issued
• Permits, Applications and Forms
• Federal Fisheries in Alaska