Annual Management Report for the Shellfish Fisheries of the Westward Region, 2001
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ANNUAL MANAGEMENT REPORT FOR THE SHELLFISH FISHERIES OF THE WESTWARD REGION, 2001 By Westward Region Shellfish Management Staff Regional Information Report1 No. 4K02-54 Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Commercial Fisheries 211 Mission Road Kodiak, Alaska 99615 December 2002 1 The Regional Information Report Series was established in 1987 to provide an information access system for all unpublished division reports. These reports frequently serve diverse ad hoc informational purposes or archive basic uninterpreted data. To accommodate timely reporting of recently collected information, reports in this series undergo only limited internal review and may contain preliminary data; this information may be subsequently finalized and published in the formal literature. Consequently, these reports should not be cited without prior approval of the author or the Division of Commercial Fisheries. WESTWARD REGION SHELLFISH MANAGEMENT STAFF Denby S. Lloyd Regional Supervisor, Kodiak Wayne K. Donaldson Regional Management Biologist, Kodiak David R. Jackson Kodiak/Alaska Peninsula Area Management Biologist, Kodiak Forrest Bowers Bering Sea/Aleutian Isl. Area Management Biologist, Dutch Harbor Mary Schwenzfeier Shellfish Observer Program Coordinator, Dutch Harbor Michael P. Ruccio Assistant Area Management Biologist, Kodiak Jeffery P. Barnhart Scallop Observer Program Coordinator, Kodiak Michael Cavin Assistant Area Management Biologist, Dutch Harbor Shari Coleman Assistant Shellfish Observer Program Coordinator, Dutch Harbor Carrie L. Worton Fishery Biologist I, Kodiak Kally Spalinger Fishery Biologist I, Kodiak Joyce Soong Fishery Biologist I, Dutch Harbor Karla Granath Fishery Biologist I, Dutch Harbor Robert Reif Fishery Biologist I, Dutch Harbor Mary Beth Miller Regional Shellfish Administrative Clerk, Kodiak Kathleen Herring Fish & Wildlife Program Technician, Dutch Harbor Kimberly Phillips Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Kodiak Lisa Pittman Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Kodiak Amy Gilson Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Dutch Harbor Krista Milani Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Dutch Harbor Susan Engle Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Dutch Harbor Chris Lillo Fish & Wildlife Technician III, Dutch Harbor Melony Lechner Fish & Wildlife Technician II, Kodiak TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES.................................................................................................................. i LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................ ix ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................... 1 OVERVIEW........................................................................................................................... 2 KODIAK AREA..................................................................................................................... 14 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 15 Tanner Crab...................................................................................................................... 16 Dungeness Crab................................................................................................................ 21 King Crab ......................................................................................................................... 23 Shrimp ............................................................................................................................. 27 Sea Cucumber................................................................................................................... 29 Sea Urchins....................................................................................................................... 31 Octopus............................................................................................................................. 33 Razor Clams...................................................................................................................... 34 ALASKA PENINSULA AREA.............................................................................................. 66 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 67 King Crab ......................................................................................................................... 67 Tanner Crab...................................................................................................................... 69 Dungeness Crab................................................................................................................ 73 Shrimp ............................................................................................................................. 74 Sea Cucumbers ................................................................................................................. 75 Octopus............................................................................................................................. 77 ALEUTIANS AREA.............................................................................................................. 94 Aleutian Islands King Crab............................................................................................... 95 Eastern Aleutian Tanner Crab........................................................................................... 106 Western Aleutian Tanner Crab.......................................................................................... 111 Aleutian Dungeness Crab.................................................................................................. 113 Aleutian Shrimp ............................................................................................................... 114 Aleutian Miscellaneous Shellfish...................................................................................... 115 BERING SEA AREA ............................................................................................................. 156 King Crab Registration Area T Bristol Bay....................................................................... 157 King Crab Registration Area Q Bering Sea....................................................................... 165 Pribilof District........................................................................................................ 166 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Cont.) Page St. Matthew Island District....................................................................................... 167 Tanner Crab...................................................................................................................... 173 Miscellaneous Shellfish..................................................................................................... 183 CDQ Crab Fisheries .......................................................................................................... 190 Bering Sea King and Tanner Crab Buoy Identification Program....................................... 195 WEATHERVANE SCALLOP .............................................................................................. 272 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 273 Management History......................................................................................................... 273 Current Management......................................................................................................... 274 Kodiak Registration Area.................................................................................................. 275 Alaska Peninsula Registration Area................................................................................... 278 Bering Sea Registration Area............................................................................................ 278 Dutch Harbor Registration Area........................................................................................ 279 Adak Registration Area..................................................................................................... 280 MANDATORY SHELLFISH OBSERVER PROGRAM....................................................... 301 Abstract............................................................................................................................. 302 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 303 History of Observe Programs ............................................................................................ 303 Shellfish Observer Program Guidelines............................................................................. 305 Observer Duties................................................................................................................. 307 Program Review................................................................................................................ 308 2001 Observer Deployments By Fishery........................................................................... 311 LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1-1. Westward Region king crab, shrimp, Tanner crab, snow crab, and Dungeness crab economic profiles, 1950-2001 ...................................................... 4 1-2. Shellfish