Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area

Fishery Advisory Announcements

• Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Opens to Pot Vessels and Longline Vessels <50 feet (PDF 334 kB) - 8/30/21
• Cook Inlet Area Lingcod and Rockfish Seasons Open (PDF 276 kB) - 6/29/21

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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, 2016-2018 (PDF 2,391 kB)
• Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2012-2015 (PDF 1,571 kB)

Regulations

• Seabird Avoidance Regulations

Forecasts

• 2021 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 649 kB)
• 2020 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 500 kB)
• 2019 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 565 kB)
• 2018 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 569 kB)
• 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 492 kB)

Maps

Cook Inlet Districts

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

Statewide Maps

• Groundfish Management Activities
• Statistical Area Maps