Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area

Fishery Advisory Announcements

• 2025 Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Vessels Using Jig Gear, State-Waters Pacific Cod Season Open to Vessels using Jig Gear (PDF 103 kB) - 4/15/25
• 2025 Cook Inlet Area Pacific Cod Season Closes to Vessels Using Pot Gear (PDF 262 kB) - 3/18/25
• 2025 Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Longline Hook Vessels Greater than or Equal to 50 Feet in Length (PDF 112 kB) - 3/10/25
• 2025 Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Longline Hook Vessels Less Than 50 Feet in Length (PDF 211 kB) - 2/21/25
• 2025 Cook Inlet Area State-Waters Pacific Cod Season Opening for Pot Gear (PDF 580 kB) - 2/6/25
• REVISED *PWS Sablefish Registration Deadline* Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet Areas 2025 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,164 kB) - 12/31/24
• Cook Inlet Area 2025 Parallel Pacific Cod Season Opens January 1 (PDF 644 kB) - 12/30/24
• Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet Areas 2025 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,155 kB) - 12/23/24

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Emergency Orders

• Cook Inlet Bycatch, Emergency Order No. 2-GF-E-01-24 (PDF 29 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, 2019–2022 (PDF 4,034 kB)
• 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

• 2024 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,168 kB)
• 2023 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,142 kB)
• 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