Alaska Board of Fisheries - Southeast Alaska Guides Organization (2024)

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Action: Close waters around Klawock to sport fishing for Dungeness crab

Rationale: Depletion of subsistence crab opportunity and no Local Area Management Plan

Klawock Tribe

Personal

Action: Close Yakutat area Dungeness crab sport fishery

Rationale: Closed annually by Emergency Order since 2005

Action: Amend methods and means for sport harvest of shellfish in Southeast and allow take by hook and line in addition to other gear specified

Rationale: Eliminate redundancy and add detail

Action: Establish a regional sablefish nonresident limit of 4 daily, 4 in possession, and 8 fish annual limit, as well as require a harvest record for the species

Rationale: Recent increase in sport fishing pressure, specifically 2010 estimated harvest of 4,793 increasing to the 2015 estimate of 13,338 fish ? the stock is stable, but at a historic low abundance

Action: Repeal mandatory retention requirements for nonpelagic rockfish

Rationale: Better to release very small or non-target fish so they can survive

Action: Set provisions for reducing resident pelagic rockfish bag limit in Central Southeast Outside by refraining from sport reduction below 5 fish per day unless the residential share of sport pelagic harvest exceeded 50% for two consecutive year

Rationale: Action intended to distinguish between charter and non-charter anglers in response to 2016/17 reduction in all sport catch from 5 fish to 3 per day, despite non-charter anglers? decrease in catch from 2007-15

5 AAC 47.021

47.020(8)(A)

Action: Reduce pelagic rockfish limits in Sitka Area to 3 fish and 6 in possession, no size limit

Rationale: Respond to the three-fold increase in sport catch and gradual decline in average weight

Action: Amend sport king salmon restrictions for Lynn Canal & Chilkat River FMP inside the surfline from April 15-June 30 when preseason projects of run strength falls within certain pre-established ranges

– Upper 1/3 of escapement range: Taku Inlet north of Cooper Point closed to king fishing April 15 through June 15. Waters of Lynn Canal above latitude of Eldred Rock closed to king fishing. Maximum limit two (2) king salmon per day

– Middle 1/3: Taku Inlet and waters from Limestone Inlet to a line from Pt Louisa to Symonds Point closed to king fishing April 15 through June 15. Waters of district 15 that are open to sport fishing, maximum limit one (1) king salmon per day.

– Lower 1/3: all waters of district 11 and 15 closed to king salmon fishing. Waters of district 12 and 14 open to sport fishing, maximum limit of one (1) king salmon/day.

Rationale: Projections and current stock information put the population at an all-time low, maintenance requires adequate annual escapement into the Taku and Chilkat.

Similar proposals submitted by this individual for troll & gillnet fleets

5 AAC 47.021

5 AAC 33.384

Action: Close the spring commercial salmon troll fishery to chinook when the Juneau sport fishery is closed to chinook

(To affect: Districts 9, 12, and 14 between April 15 ? June 15)

Action: Amend Mist Cove salmon closure to allow taking salmon with fly fishing gear and prohibit snagging

Rationale: The closure was intended to prevent damage to net pens and provide safety for site crew and fly fishing gear does not cause damage or safety issues

Action: Expand the Herring Bay Sportfish Terminal Harvest Area by opening a sub-area to Ketchikan STHA for additional sport fishing for hatchery-produced king salmon with a 2-fish daily bag limit that does not count against anglers annual limit

Rationale: Alleviate inequities between inside and outside port fisheries earlier in the season

Action: Recreate a terminal harvest area and mgmt. plan for Carroll Inlet to distribute hatchery produced king salmon in the area between purse seine, troll, and drift gillnet fleets

Rationale: Thoroughly discussed by the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Board of Directors, with alternatives and changes to reflect consensus between the various affected groups

Action: Establish non-resident annual limits for sockeye salmon in Southeast salt waters to be twice the daily bag limit

Rationale: Claims abuses to sport fish bag and possession limit by nonresident anglers and that the mail-out sport harvest survey is inadequate to account for catch

Action: Establish nonresident annual limit for sockeye salmon in Southeast fresh waters to be twice the daily bag limit

Rationale: Claims abuses to sportfish bag and possession limits and that the mail-out harvest survey is inadequate to account for catch

Action: Simplify current freshwater sport regulations for king salmon in freshwater drainages of Sitka Sound Special Use Area; bag and possession limit proposed as 10 fish, no size limit, and a king taken by a nonresident does not count towards nonresident annual limit

Rationale: No wild stocks present

Action: Amend the open season for Dolly Varden in Auke Bay to change dates from June 1 – March 31 to July 1 – April 30, to allow May and June fishing

Rationale: Healthy population with little fishing pressure

Action: Increase the bag limit for Dolly Varden on the Juneau road system to 4 fish

Rationale: There is a 10 per day and 10 in possession limit in most other locations in Southeast, so roadside anglers can usually see boats with those limits nearby; proposer could not find rationale for roadside limit anywhere

Action: Prohibit snagging in all salt and freshwaters along the Juneau road system with minor exceptions in approved areas when hatchery fish abundance is strong

Rationale: Growing concern of user group conflict between sport groups

Action: Rescind salmon sport fishing closure in Sheep Creek

Rationale: no longer necessary

Action: amend sockeye salmon management measures in Windfall Creek so that if escapement goals are reached, ADFG has a harvest tag system to allow annual catch taken in single day; propose closure June 1-August 1, with Tues-Thursday/Sat-Sun exceptions in June

Rationale: seeing excessive crowding on the open days right now