Commercial Shellfish Fisheries
Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands Management Area
Fishery News Releases and Announcements
- Bering Sea Snow Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 103 kB) - 10/2/18
- Bering Sea Tanner Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 106 kB) - 10/2/18
- Bristol Bay Red King Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 99 kB) - 10/2/18
- Saint Matthew Island Section Blue King Crab Season Closed (PDF 19 kB) - 10/2/18
- Pribilof District Red and Blue King Crab Seasons Closed (PDF 20 kB) - 10/2/18
- Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Annual Crab Industry Meeting (PDF 27 kB) - 9/26/18
- 2018/19 CATCHER VESSEL SELECTION FOR OBSERVER COVERAGE FOR BRISTOL BAY RED KING, BERING SEA SNOW, AND EASTERN AND WESTERN BERING SEA TANNER CRAB FISHERIES (PDF 346 kB) - 9/26/18
- 2018/19 Preseason Vessel Registration for Bristol Bay Red King Crab,Eastern and Western Bering Sea Tanner Crab,and Bering Sea Snow Crab Fisheries (PDF 116 kB) - 7/12/18
- Test-Fishery Harvest and Purchase of Bristol Bay Red King Crab (PDF 99 kB) - 7/12/18
- ALEUTIAN ISLANDS GOLDEN KING CRAB FISHERIES OPEN AUGUST 1TOTAL ALLOWABLE CATCH ANNOUNCED (PDF 104 kB) - 6/28/18
- Test-Fishery Harvest and Purchase of Eastern Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab (PDF 99 kB) - 6/21/18
- 2018 St. Matthew Island Blue King Crab Survey - Seek Crab-Pot Vessel For Charter (PDF 150 kB) - 5/14/18
- WESTERN BERING SEA TANNER CRAB FISHERY CLOSURE REMINDER (PDF 23 kB) - 3/28/18
- 2018 St. Matthew Island blue king crab survey - Seek crab-pot vessel for charter (PDF 151 kB) - 2/12/18
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Management
2018 ADF&G/BSAI Crab Industry Total Allowable Catch (TAC) Meeting
- Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Annual Crab Industry Meeting (PDF 27 kB)
- 2018/19 Bering Sea Crab Review of TACs - Part 1 (PDF 4,460 kB)
- 2018/19 Bering Sea Crab Review of TACs - Part 2 (PDF 4,018 kB)
- ADF&G Bering Sea Tanner Crab Harvest Strategy Revision (PDF 659 kB)
Identification Guides
Vessel Registrations
Annual Management Reports
- Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfisheries of the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea (PDF 8,447 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region's Shellfish Observer Program, 2011/12 (PDF 6,944 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region's Shellfish Observer Program, 2010/11 (PDF 7,561 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region's Shellfish Observer Program, 2009/10 (PDF 4,748 kB)
- Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region's Shellfish Observer Program, 2008/09 (PDF 5,201 kB)
Other Shellfish Reports
- Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2016 (PDF 10,783 kB)
- Eastern Aleutian District Trawl Survey Packet (PDF 1,241 kB)
News Releases
Crab Observer Oversight Taskforce (COOTF) information
Board of Fisheries Findings
- Continuation of the Crab Observer Oversight Task Force: 2014-274-FB (PDF 397 kB)
- Charge to the Initiial oversight Committee (PDF 1,063 kB)
- Bearing Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Observer Oversight Task Force: Board of Fisheries Finding 99-186-FB (PDF 1,442 kB)
- Continuation of the Crab Observer Oversight Task Force: 2008-260-FB (PDF 457 kB)
- Continuation of the Crab Observer Oversight Task Force: 2011-265-FB (PDF 477 kB)
- Task Force to Implement Bering Sea/Aleutian Island King and Tanner Crab Rationalization: 2003-223A-FB (PDF 616 kB)
- Continuation of the Crab Observer Oversight Task Force: 2005-239-FB (PDF 346 kB)
ADF&G Reports to COOTF
- 2010 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 4,991 kB)
- 2011 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,041 kB)
- 2012 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,251 kB)
- 2013 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,407 kB)
- 2014 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,601 kB)
- 2015 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,399 kB)
- 2016 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,670 kB)
Annual Observer Data Summary Reports
- Summary of the 2013/2014 Mandatory Crab Observer Program Database for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Commercial Crab Fisheries (PDF 975 kB)
- Summary of the 2012/2013 Mandatory Crab Observer Program Database for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Commercial Crab Fisheries (PDF 653 kB)
- Summary of the 2011/2012 Mandatory Crab Observer Program Database for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands CommercialCrab Fisheries (PDF 596 kB)
- Summary of the 2010/2011 Mandatory Crab Observer Program Database for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Commercial Crab Fisheries (PDF 583 kB)
- Summary of the 2009/2010 Mandatory Crab Observer Program Database for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Commercial Crab Fisheries (PDF 892 kB)
- Summary of the 2008/2009 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the Rationalized Crab Fisheries (PDF 693 kB)
- Summary of the 2007/2008 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the Rationalized Crab Fisheries (PDF 703 kB)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game Summary of the 2006/2007 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the Rationalized Crab Fisheries (PDF 1,328 kB)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game Summary of the 2005/2006 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the Rationalized Crab Fisheries (PDF 1,181 kB)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game Summary of the 2004 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the General and CDQ Fisheries (PDF 385 kB)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game Summary of the 2005 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the Non-rationalized Bering Sea Crab Fisheries (PDF 464 kB)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game Summary of the 2003 Mandatory Shellfish Observer Program Database for the General and CDQ Fisheries (PDF 559 kB)