ALASKA BOARD OF FISHERIES

October 9-10, 2013

Work Session
Agenda Change Request Index of Comments
This index of on-time advisory committee and public comments shows either SUPPORT or OPPOSITION for the individual Agenda
Change Requests at this meeting. The center column indicates a comment was made but without a clear indication of support or
opposition. The reference number (ACxx or PCxx) refers to the Advisory Committee comment number or Public Comment number. The
full comment as submitted can be found in the Advisory Committee tab or Public Comment tab of the board book (Record Copy 1). The
notation of "S/A" indicates support as amended.
GENERAL
SUPPORT OPPOSITION
COMMENT
●Petersburg Vessel
Owners Association PC 3
●Southeast Alaska
ACR 1 Modify groundfish possession and landing requirements to Fishermen's Alliance PC 5
specify when groundfish bycatch levels are assessed on board a
vessel. (5 AAC 28.070
Implement a management plan for an open-access weathervane ●Bruce B. Weyhrauch,
ACR 2 LLC PC 7
scallop fishery in waters of Alaska. (5 AAC 38.0XX)
Remove dip net size restrictions for the Yukon Area districts 1–3 ●Yukon Delta Fisheries ●David Daum PC 8
ACR 3 commercial summer chum salmon fisheries. (5 AAC 05.362) Development Association
PC 22, 31

Establish monofilament purse seines as a new legal gear for the ●Yukon Delta Fisheries ●Tanana Rampart
Development Association Manley AC 2
ACR 4 Yukon Area districts 1–3 commercial summer chum salmon PC 19, 22, 30, 31 ●David Daum PC 8
fisheries. (5 AAC 39.170 and 5 AAC 05.362)

Eliminate all other consumptive uses of the Sitka Sound herring ●Petersburg Vessel
stock in order to provide reasonable subsistence opportunity. (5 Owners Association PC
3
ACR 5 AAC 27.160, 5 AAC 27.170, and 5 AAC 27.195) ●Southeast Alaska
Fishermen's Alliance PC
5
 GENERAL
SUPPORT OPPOSITION
COMMENT
Establish statewide regulation to allow use of dip net gear in ●Nushagak AC 1
place of commercial gillnet and seine gear for salmon stock ●Megan & Todd Smith,
Travis &Amber Every,
conservation purposes. (5 AAC 39.2XX)
Brian &Lisa Gabriel, and
Sarah & Jason PC 11
●Kenai Peninsula
Fishermen's Association
PC 14
ACR 6 ●Karen S. McGahan PC
18
●Richard McGahan, Sr.
PC 20
●Cordova District
Fishermen United PC 28

Define and allow use of a lead for commercial fish wheel gear. (5
ACR 7
AAC 05.333)
Implement a management plan for an open-access weathervane ●Bruce B. Weyhrauch,
ACR 8 scallop fishery in waters of Alaska. (5 AAC 38.0XX) LLC PC 7

Remove the exception allowing for a dead king salmon to be

taken, but not retained, in the Yukon Area districts 1–3 dip net
ACR 9
and beach seine commercial summer chum salmon fisheries. (5
AAC 05.362)
Remedy a navigational obstruction in Ugashik River set gillnet ●Cape Greig LLC PC 4
ACR 10 salmon fishery. (5 AAC 06.331) ●Bruce B. Weyhrauch,
LLC PC 6
Define commercial salmon fishing boundaries for the Outer Port ●Concerned Area M
Heiden, Ilnik, and Three Hills sections in the Northern District of Fishermen PC 12
ACR 11
Area M using GPS coordinates. (5 AAC 09.200, 5 AAC 09.350,
and 5 AAC 09.369)
 GENERAL
SUPPORT OPPOSITION
COMMENT
Modify the time period the Nushagak River single hook ●Nushagak AC 1 S/A
ACR 12 regulation is in effect from year-round to May 1–July 31. (5 ●Chris Carr PC 16
AAC 67.022)
Modify Kuskokwim River salmon management plan for king ●Native Village of
salmon conservation. (5 AAC 01, 5 AAC 07, and 5 AAC 71) Chuathbaluk PC 1
●The Native Village of
Napaimute PC 2
●Association of Village
Council Presidents PC 9
●Kuskokwim Native
Association PC 10
●Bering Sea Fishermen's
ACR 13 Association PC 23
●Kuskokwim River Salmon
Management Working
Group PC 24
●Casie Stockdale PC 25
●Michael B. Rearden PC
27

Modify the time period the Nushagak River single hook ● Nushagak AC 1 S/A
ACR 14 regulation is in effect from year-round to May 1–July 31. (5 ●Chris Carr PC 16
●Arthur Schultz PC 22
AAC 67.022)