Applications are open to become a Fishing Fellow! For more information about this year’s hosts and projects visit the application information page. Applications are open until May 10.
The NPFMC will meet by video conference - Learn More
The Council will meet May 15, 2020, from 12 pm – 5 pm Alaska time, via web conference for a special meeting to review emergency rule requests that have been submitted for Council consideration. The AGENDA is now available.
Join Ann Jarris, MD, MBA, FACEP as she explains how the Discovery Health vessel procedures can help crews work through these challenging and rapidly developing issues. Live audience questions will be answered toward the end of the event.
The April meeting of the NPFMC has been cancelled.
The NPFMC will meet at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, WA.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fisheriesboard.meetinginfo&date=12-10-2019&meeting=seward
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet in Anchorage at the Hilton Hotel.
Come find AKFN at the AMCC booth in the Alaska Hall at Expo! We’re booth #4322.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fisheriesboard.meetinginfo&date=10-23-2019&meeting=anchorage
The NPFMC will meet in Homer for the first time in 30 years.
Thursday, Feb. 21 (first meeting day). Boards Support Section is hosting a training course, How to Navigate the Board Process (PDF 3,395 kB) during the lunch break in the main meeting area. The training will occur roughly ten minutes after the noon break and last approximately one hour. All are welcome. Call Boards Support, 907-465-4110, for more information.
Providing research and stock assessment of Pacific halibut within Canada and United States.
Tuesday, January 15 (first meeting day). Boards Support Section is hosting a training course, How to Navigate the Board Process (PDF 3,395 kB) during the lunch break in the main meeting area. The training will occur roughly ten minutes after the noon break and last approximately one hour. All are welcome. Call Boards Support, 907-465-4110, for more information.
The Alaska Fishermen's Network will be hosting a mixer event Friday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. at the Sea Inn in Dillingham. We will serve eat-it-to-believe-it tasty, salmon chowder by Susie Jenkins-Brito of Set the Net prepared with Bristol Bay sockeye donated by Catch 49! We will also have Vol. 1 of the Young Fishermen's Almanac available for sale. Get a jump on those Christmas gifts and let us feed you after a long day at Board of Fisheries. Please reach out to jamie@akmarine.org with questions.
Wednesday, Nov. 28 (first meeting day). Boards Support Section is hosting a training course, How to Navigate the Board Process (PDF 3,395 kB) during the lunch break in the main meeting area. The training will occur roughly ten minutes after the noon break and last approximately one hour. All are welcome. Call Boards Support, 907-465-4110, for more information.
Pacific Marine Expo is the largest commercial marine trade show on the West Coast, serving commercial mariners from Alaska to California.
All Hands on Deck, the annual meeting of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute will be held from Oct 29-31st at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, AK.
The Board of Fisheries is the state's regulatory authority that passes regulations to conserve and develop Alaska's fisheries resources. The Board of Fisheries is charged with making allocative and regulatory decisions.
This 2-day (16-hr) introductory workshop is designed to familiarize people with the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting techniques of RSW systems.
AMCC Deputy Director, Shannon Carroll, will give an update on national standards and bring us up to speed on important issues coming before the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
