Fishery News Releases and Announcements

• Big skate closes to retention in Cook Inlet Area (PDF 21 kB) - 9/27/16
• Cook Inlet Parallel Pot Season Reopens Parallel Season Remains Closed to Longline (PDF 151 kB) - 8/26/16
• Cook Inlet Area Sablefish Fishery Opens (PDF 69 kB) - 7/7/16
• Cook Inlet Rockfish and Lingcod Fisheries Update (PDF 28 kB) - 6/22/16

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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

• Pacific Cod Annual Management Report for PWS and CI, 2012 (PDF 2,648 kB)
• Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2005-2011 (PDF 1,913 kB)
• Pacific Cod Annual Management Report for PWS and CI, 2010 (PDF 5,269 kB)

Regulations

• Seabird Avoidance Regulations

Forecasts

• 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