Fish Species
Introduction
Click on the image above for the WOD Halibut and Sablefish poster (PDF file - 2,810kb)
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Fish Species
Sablefish
2/9/10: 2010 Chatham Sablefish Quota
1,063,000 round pounds. This is a less than 1% decrease from the 2009 AHO (1,071,000). There are currently 87 permits for this fishery, one less than in 2009; therefore the individual equal quota share (EQS) will be 12,218 round pounds (one half of one percent more than last year’s EQS of 12,170 round pounds). The fishery opens by regulation at 8:00 am on August 15, 2010 and will close at 12:00 noon on November 15, 2010.
NSEI Sablefish 2010 (85kb PDF file)
2/8/10: Chatham Sablefish Meeting Documents posted
Sable C61C Southern status memo (43K pdf)
Sable C61A Northern status memo (82K pdf)
SP10-01 (1455K pdf)
fds09-50 2006-2007 NSEI Sablefish Stock Assessment (1696K pdf)
FMR09-54 (1091K pdf)
Memo 2009 NSEI sablefish assessment Final (103K pdf)
12/22/09: NPFMC Newsletter - December 2009 (335kb PDF file)
Note: page 12 gives the sablefish quotas for 2010.
12/17/09
2007 Chatham Assessment (1.65kb PDF file)
2010 Gulf of Alaska Assessment (1.57mb PDF file)
7/24/09: Attached are the reports from the three independent experts from the Center for Independent Experts (CIE) that reviewed the sablefish stock assessment in March. Also included is a summary report that was prepared at the conclusion of the meeting by the reviewers and the Panel chair. The summary is not an official CIE product, but provides a useful overview of the three reports. We will be preparing an official AFSC response over the coming months of how we will address issues that were raised in the review reports. This response will be distributed via email and as a September Plan Team document. Thank you for your patience in waiting for the reports and please pass on to other interested parties.
Dana Hanselman
Armstrong AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file 263 kb)
Casey AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file143 kb)
Klaer AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file 95 kb)
Sablefish_CIE_Panel_Summary (PDF file 57 kb)
AD&FG 2007 NSEI Sablefish Tagging Survey (PDF file off site)
June 2008 Sablefish Survey (PDF file 213 kb)
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Fish Species
Halibut
Halibut Catch Limits
The IPHC this morning, Jan 29th, announced the 2010 catch limits. They are:
Area 2A .810 Mlbs
Area 2B .7.50 Mlbs
Area 2C .4.40 Mlbs
Area 3A 19.99 Mlbs
Area 3B 9.90 Mlbs
Area 4A 2.33 Mlbs
Area 4B 2.16 Mlbs
Area 4CDE 3.25 Mlbs
Total
Areas 2A and 2B include recreational catch limits
The charter sectors GHL were used for the charter removals before
determining the commercial catch limit in Areas 2C and 3A. The 2C GHL
is 788,000 lbs and the 3A GHL is 3.65Mlbs.
The season dates will be March 6 to November 15, 2010
Areas 3A-4E are all at staff catch limit recommendations. Additional
poundage was provided to Area 2 with 5 Commissioners supporting the
motion and 1 opposed. The opposition was that the overall total catch
limits exceed the staff recommendations overall coastwide total. The
reason for the support for additional poundage in Area 2 was the
acknowledgement that bycatch issues for other areas were having more
of an effect in this area than previously thought.
More information provided later.
The IPHC catch limit comments are posted online.
http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/pubs/annmeet/2010/catlim/catlim2010.htm
12/31/09: Final IPHC comments (317kb PDF file)
12/17/09: IPHC Stock Assessment (5.11mb PDF file)
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Fish Species
Other Groundfish
This section under construction.