Commercial Shellfish Fisheries
Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands Management Area

Fishery News Releases and Announcements

• Eastern Aleutian District Tanner Crab 2019 Fishery Closed (PDF 25 kB) - 12/4/18

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Harvest

• Shrimp Exvessel Prices
• Statewide Crab Exvessel Prices

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

• 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 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, 2017 (PDF 10,991 kB)
• Eastern Aleutian District Trawl Survey Packet (PDF 1,241 kB)

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Maps

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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