Sustaining Alaska's Fisheries

Sustaining Alaska's Fisheries
Author: Bob King
Publisher: State of Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Fisheries
ISBN: 9781933375083

A pictorial retrospective containing stories of visionary pioneers, scientists, and the leaders who have been a part of developing Alaska's sustainable commercial fisheries management principles.

Sustainable Fisheries Management

Sustainable Fisheries Management
Author: E. Eric Knudsen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429526369

What has happened to the salmon resource in the Pacific Northwest? Who is responsible and what can be done to reverse the decline in salmon populations? The responsibly falls on everyone involved - fishermen, resource managers and concerned citizens alike - to take the steps necessary to ensure that salmon populations make a full recovery. T

Sustainable Fisheries Management

Sustainable Fisheries Management
Author: E. Eric Knudsen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 906
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781439822678

What has happened to the salmon resource in the Pacific Northwest? Who is responsible and what can be done to reverse the decline in salmon populations? The responsibly falls on everyone involved - fishermen, resource managers and concerned citizens alike - to take the steps necessary to ensure that salmon populations make a full recovery. T

Living Policy

Living Policy
Author: Crystal M. Callahan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

Interactions between resource managers, policy makers and stakeholders are action centers of natural resource policy construction. This thesis explores the construction of Alaska salmon fishery policy at both state and federal management levels through specific case studies. Alaskan fishery policy is created by regulatory officials and those that rely on natural resources for their economic and cultural survival. On one hand, local participation limits the influence of outsiders. On the other, groups of non-locals seek to gain influence and shape regulations that negatively affect local communities. This study highlights Alaska's political history for its effects on the present use of maritime resources and policies. Stakeholders in Alaska salmon fisheries and adjacent federal fisheries management areas continuously shape public policy in an effort to mitigate pressures exerted on fish stocks and their communities. Alaska fisheries management demonstrates living policy: a flexible management structure that shifts with changing priorities of its stakeholders.

Politics of Resource Development in Alaska

Politics of Resource Development in Alaska
Author: Gordon Scott Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1970
Genre: Salmon canning industry
ISBN:

Criticism of subsidy protection of domestic canners and processors from foreign competition for Alaskan salmon.

Chum Salmon Stock Status and Escapement Goals in Southeast Alaska

Chum Salmon Stock Status and Escapement Goals in Southeast Alaska
Author: Andrew W. Piston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2017
Genre: Chum salmon
ISBN:

In Southeast Alaska, chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) spawn in more than 1,200 streams. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game maintains a standardized survey program to index spawning chum salmon abundance at 87 summer-run and seven fall-run streams. Lower-bound sustainable escapement goals are established for summer-run stocks comprising aggregates of index streams over three broad subregions (Southern Southeast, Northern Southeast Inside, and Northern Southeast Outside) and sustainable escapement goal ranges are established for five fall-run stocks that support directed fisheries (Cholmondeley Sound, Port Camden, Security Bay, Excursion River, and Chilkat River). We reviewed chum salmon escapement goals and recommend that summer-run chum salmon goals continue to be based on the 25th percentiles of historical escapement index counts, primarily due to the uncertainty regarding harvest rates. We recommend reducing the Northern Southeast Inside Subregion lower-bound sustainable escapement goal from 119,000 to 107,000 fish. For fall-run chum salmon stocks, except for the Chilkat River, we also recommend continuing to base escapement goals on the 25th and 75th percentiles of historical escapement index counts, and recommend no changes at this time. Summer-run chum salmon escapement goals were met in four of the past five years in the Southern Southeast and Northern Southeast Outside subregions, and in three of the past five years in the Northern Southeast Inside Subregion. Escapement goals were met for the five fall-run stocks 84% of the time over the past 5 years. The annual common property harvest of chum salmon in Southeast Alaska averaged 6.9 million fish per year since 2007; hatchery-produced fish accounted for an average 85% of that harvest. No Southeast Alaska stocks of chum salmon currently meet the criteria for stocks of concern as defined by the State of Alaska's Policy for Management of Sustainable Salmon Fisheries (5 AAC 39.222).