Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area

Fishery Advisory Announcements

• Cook Inlet Area State-Waters Pacific Cod Season Closes to Pot Vessels Less Than or Equal to 58 Feet Parallel Pacific Cod Season Opens to Pot Vessels and Longline Vessels Less than 50 Feet Closed to Longline Vessels Greater than or Equal to 50 Feet (PDF 448 kB) - 8/26/22
• Cook Inlet Area Sablefish Season Opens (PDF 67 kB) - 7/6/22
• Cook Inlet Area Lingcod and Rockfish Seasons Open (PDF 70 kB) - 6/16/22

• Search for other Advisory Announcements

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

Search for Reports

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

• 2022 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,128 kB)
• 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