Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area

Fishery News Releases and Announcements

• Cook Inlet Area Pacific Cod Jig Fishery - Parallel Season Closes, State-Waters Season Opens (PDF 95 kB) - 3/11/19
• COOK INLET AREA STATE-WATERS PACIFIC COD SEASON CLOSES TO POT VESSELS (PDF 24 kB) - 3/7/19
• COOK INLET PARALLEL PACIFIC COD SEASON CLOSES TO LONGLINE VESSELS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 50 FT (PDF 22 kB) - 2/26/19
• Cook Inlet Area Octopus Closes to Retention (PDF 23 kB) - 2/21/19
• Cook Inlet Area State-Waters Season Closes to Pot Vessels Greater Than 58 Feet (PDF 24 kB) - 2/7/19
• Cook Inlet Parallel Pacific Cod Closes to Longline Vessels Less Than 50 Feet (PDF 23 kB) - 2/5/19
• Cook Inlet Pacific Cod Pot Parallel Season Closes State Waters Season Opens (PDF 66 kB) - 1/25/19
• Cook Inlet Area 2018 Pacific Cod Seasons Close 2019 Parallel Pacific Cod Seasons Open (PDF 155 kB) - 12/14/18
• 2019 CENTRAL REGION GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OUTLOOK - REVISED2 (PDF 565 kB) - 12/12/18
• Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes To Longline Gear (PDF 149 kB) - 11/29/18
• Cook Inlet Area Lingcod Season Closes (PDF 21 kB) - 11/11/18

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Emergency Orders

• Cook Inlet Bycatch, Emergency Order No. 2-GF-H-01-16 (PDF 26 kB)

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

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Annual Management Reports

• Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2012-2015 (PDF 1,571 kB)

Regulations

• Seabird Avoidance 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)

Maps

Cook Inlet Districts

• Cook Inlet Sound Groundfish Closure Areas
• Cook Inlet Statistical Area Map

Statewide Maps

• Groundfish Management Activities
• Statistical Area Maps