Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area
Fishery News Releases and Announcements
- COOK INLET OCTOPUS CLOSURE (PDF 23 kB) - 3/26/18
- COOK INLET PARALLEL PACIFIC COD SEASON CLOSES TO LONGLINE VESSELS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 50 FEET (PDF 22 kB) - 3/13/18
- Cook Inlet Area Parallel Season Closes to Longline Vessels Less Than 50 feet (PDF 23 kB) - 2/27/18
- Cook Inlet Area Pacific Cod State-Waters Season Closes to Pot Vessels Greater than 58 feet (PDF 24 kB) - 2/18/18
- Cook Inlet Area Pacific cod pot season - parallel closes, state-waters season opens (PDF 66 kB) - 2/12/18
- Cook Inlet Area State-Waters Jig Season Opens January 1 (PDF 145 kB) - 12/29/17
- COOK INLET 2017 PARALLEL PACIFIC COD SEASON CLOSES DECEMBER 31 2018 PARALLEL PACIFIC COD SEASON OPENS JANUARY 1 (PDF 141 kB) - 12/15/17
- 2018 CENTRAL REGION GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OUTLOOK (PDF 569 kB) - 12/15/17
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Emergency Orders
Harvest
- Cook Inlet Lingcod - Including Federal Waters
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod - Parallel Season
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod - State-Waters Season
- Cook Inlet Rockfish
- Cook Inlet Sablefish
- Groundfish Catch Statistics (NMFS Link)
Management & Announcements
Annual Management Reports
- Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2012-2015 (PDF 1,571 kB)
Regulations
Forecasts
- 2017 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 566 kB)
- 2016 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 500 kB)
- 2015 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 498 kB)
- 2014 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 448 kB)
- 2013 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 352 kB)
- 2012 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 352 kB)
- 2011 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 644 kB)
- 2010 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 438 kB)
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Cook Inlet Districts
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