Commercial Shellfish Fisheries
Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands Management Area
Fishery Advisory Announcements
- 2023 Eastern Aleutian District Tanner Crab Fishery Pot Limit Announced (PDF 62 kB) - 12/27/22
- 2023 Eastern Aleutian District Tanner Crab Preseason Registration and Guideline Harvest Level Announced (PDF 121 kB) - 12/5/22
- Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Annual Crab Industry Meeting (PDF 312 kB) - 11/3/22
- 2022 Vessel Selection AA (PDF 172 kB) - 10/11/22
- 2022/23 Bering Sea Snow Crab Season Closed (PDF 43 kB) - 10/10/22
- 2022/23 Bristol Bay Red King Crab Season Closed (PDF 43 kB) - 10/10/22
- 2022/23 Bering Sea Tanner Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 107 kB) - 10/10/22
- 2022/23 Saint Matthew Island Section Blue King Crab Season Closed (PDF 42 kB) - 10/10/22
- 2022/23 Pribilof District Red and Blue King Crab Seasons Closed (PDF 104 kB) - 10/10/22
- Registration Area J Dungeness Crab Season Closure Reminder (PDF 61 kB) - 9/30/22
- 2022/23 Preseason Vessel Registration for Bristol Bay Red King Crab, Eastern and Western Bering Sea Tanner Crab, and Bering Sea Snow Crab Fisheries (PDF 227 kB) - 8/18/22
Management
ADF&G/BSAI Crab Industry Total Allowable Catch (TAC) Meeting
- 2022/23 Bering Sea Crab Review of TACs (PDF 7,027 kB)
Identification Guides
Vessel Registrations
Annual Management Reports
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2021/22 (PDF 6,242 kB)
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2020/21 (PDF 4,462 kB)
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2019/20 (PDF 4,665 kB)
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2018/19 (PDF 3,472 kB)
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2017/18 (PDF 3,481 kB)
- Annual Management Report for Shellfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Management Area, 2016/17 (PDF 3,409 kB)
- 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
- Large-Mesh Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2021 (PDF 29,328 kB)
- 2021 Tanner Crab Chionoecetes bairdi Bottom Trawl Survey Results for the Eastern Aleutian District (PDF 4,707 kB)
- Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2020 (PDF 15,053 kB)
- Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2019 (PDF 14,179 kB)
Advisory Announcements
Maps
Bering Sea Aleutian Islands Management Area Maps
- King Crab Registration Area O — Aleutian Islands (PDF 1,855 kB)
- King Crab Registration Area T — Bristol Bay (PDF 1,603 kB)
- King Crab Registration Area Q — Bering Sea (PDF 630 kB)
- Tanner Crab Registration Area J — Bering Sea District (PDF 2,262 kB)
- Tanner Crab and Miscellaneous Shellfish Registration Area J — Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Districts (PDF 2,406 kB)
- Eastern Aleutian District Tanner Crab Sections (PDF 2,839 kB)
- Dungeness Registration Area J — North Peninsula and Aleutian Islands District (PDF 2,343 kB)
- Weathervane Scallop Registration Areas — Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (PDF 2,385 kB)
Statewide Maps
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
- 2022 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 152 kB)
- 2021 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 151 kB)
- 2020 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 146 kB)
- 2019 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 144 kB)
- 2018 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 190 kB)
- 2017 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 194 kB)
- 2016 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,670 kB)
- 2015 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,399 kB)
- 2014 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,601 kB)
- 2013 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,407 kB)
- 2012 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,251 kB)
- 2011 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 5,041 kB)
- 2010 ADF&G Shellfish Observer Program Test Fishery Account Annual Report to COOTF (PDF 4,991 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)