Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area

Fishery Advisory Announcements

• Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Longline Vessels Greater Than or Equal to 50 feet (PDF 129 kB) - 11/13/19
• COOK INLET AREA PACIFIC COD FISHERYPARALLEL SEASON CLOSES TO POT GEAR STATE-WATERS SEASON OPENS TO POT GEAR (PDF 66 kB) - 10/10/19
• COOK INLET PARALLEL PACIFIC COD SEASON CLOSES TO LONGLINE VESSELS LESS THAN 50 FEET (PDF 128 kB) - 10/2/19
• COOK INLET AREA PACIFIC COD FISHERY PARALLEL SEASON OPENS TO POT AND LONGLINE GEAR (PDF 197 kB) - 8/21/19
• COOK INLET AREA SABLEFISH SEASON OPENS (PDF 27 kB) - 7/5/19
• COOK INLET AREA LINGCOD AND ROCKFISH SEASONS OPEN (PDF 33 kB) - 6/12/19

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Emergency Orders

• Cook Inlet Bycatch, Emergency Order No. 2-GF-H-01-19 (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