Commercial Shellfish Fisheries
Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands Management Area

Fishery Advisory Announcements

• Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Annual Crab Industry Meeting (PDF 138 kB) - 10/13/21
• UPDATED 2021/22 Catcher Vessel Selection Lists for Observer Coverage for Bering Sea Snow Crab (PDF 159 kB) - 10/11/21
• Bering Sea Snow Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 278 kB) - 10/8/21
• Bering Sea Tanner Crab Season Opens October 15 Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 280 kB) - 10/8/21
• Saint Matthew Island Section Blue King Crab Season Closed (PDF 129 kB) - 10/8/21
• Pribilof District Red and Blue King Crab Seasons Closed (PDF 274 kB) - 10/8/21
• Registration Area J Dungeness Crab Season Closure Reminder (PDF 119 kB) - 10/1/21
• 2021/22 Catcher Vessel Selection Lists for Observer Coverage for Bering Sea Snow, and Eastern and Western Bering Sea Tanner Crab Fisheries (PDF 187 kB) - 9/27/21
• 2021/22 Bristol Bay Red King Crab Season Closed (PDF 130 kB) - 9/3/21
• 2021/22 Preseason Vessel Registration for Bristol Bay Red King Crab, Eastern and Western Bering Sea Tanner Crab, and Bering Sea Snow Crab Fisheries (PDF 287 kB) - 8/18/21
• Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab Total Allowable Catch Announced (PDF 279 kB) - 6/25/21
• 2021 St. Matthew Island Blue King Crab Survey -- Seeking Crab-Pot Vessel for Charter (Amended) (PDF 227 kB) - 5/3/21

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Harvest

• Shrimp Exvessel Prices
• Statewide Crab Exvessel Prices

Management

ADF&G/BSAI Crab Industry Total Allowable Catch (TAC) Meeting

• 2021/22 Bering Sea Crab Review of TACs (PDF 5,902 kB)

Identification Guides

• Chionoecetes Crab Quick Reference Guide (Rev. 9/2016) (PDF 359 kB)

Vessel Registrations

• Preseason Registration Forms and Vessels

Annual Management Reports

• 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

• Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2019 (PDF 14,179 kB)
• Bottom Trawl Survey of Crab and Groundfish: Kodiak, Chignik, South Peninsula, and Eastern Aleutian Management Districts, 2018 (PDF 15,792 kB)
• Eastern Aleutian District Trawl Survey Packet (PDF 3,007 kB)

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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 2,292 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 2,218 kB)
• Dungeness Registration Area J -North Peninsula and Aleutian Islands District (PDF 2,343 kB)

Statewide Maps

• Shrimp Management Activities
• Statistical Area 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

• 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)

Observers in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Fisheries