RCLOG RC /D" Board of Fisheries - Statewide Finfish, Supplemental Issues, Subsistence Finding Standards, and Chitina Dipnet Fishery. March 16 - 21, 2010, Anchorage Log # Source Descriptiou Pgs. 1 ADF&G Boards Support BOF Workbook 2 ADF&G Staff Comments on Statewide Finfish and 51 Supplemental Proposals 3 University of Alaska - Oral Report Slides on Bering Sea Tanner Crab 21 Gordon Kruse Size Study 4 NPFMC - Diana Stram Oral Report Slides on Crab Rebuilding 12 5 ADF&G - Stefanie Oral Report Slides on Crab Rebuilding 6 Moreland Options 6 ADF&G - Eric Volk and Oral Report Slides on SSFP 17 Bob Clark 7 ADF&G - Taube, Oral Report Slides re Chitina Fishery 10 Somerville 8 ADF&G - Taube Written Report re Chitina Fishery 18 9 ADF&G - Fall Eight Criteria Worksheet re Chitina 152 10 ADF&G - Fall Chitina overview oral report slides 32 11 ADF&G - Fall Chitina deliberation slides 51 12 ADF&G Staff comments on Prop 200 & 20 I 6 13 Don Nagel Mgmt of Yentna River sockeye petition 1 14 Ryan Kapp CFEC report 10-N, Feb 2010 2 15 AK Sportfishing Assoc. Mgmt of Yentna sockeye salmon 1 16 Ken Tarbox Prop 166, 170, 171, 179 5 17 Glenn Hamar Prop 195 2 18 Valhary Braz Prop 195 2 19 Dennis Pollock Prop 195 3 20 Philip Wiley Chatham Strait black cod 1 21 City of Kasaan Prop 195 2 22 Concerned residents of Prop 195 8 Kasaan 23 Dept of Economic Analysis of Prop 168 - seine fishing vessel 9 Development length J page __I__ _ RCLOG RC Board of Fisheries - Statewide Finfish, Supplemental Issues, Subsistence Finding Standards, and Chitina Dipnet Fishery. March 16 - 21, 2010, Anchorage Log # Source Description Pgs. 24 Della Coburn Prop 195 2 25 SaxmanAC AC minutes 3 26 ADF&G Moreland Briefing on BSAI crab FMP 3 27 Pacific NW Crab AC Crab rebuilding plan 2 28 CraigAC AC minutes 1 29 Daniel Rinella Prop 195 1 30 Gary Adkinson Jr Prop 195 2 31 AK Scallop Assoc. Annual catch limits on AK weathervane 1 scallop fishery 32 ICEPAC ACL - Bering Seal Aleutian Island crab 1 33 AK Outdoor Council UCI emergency petition 2 34 Mat Valley AC Addendum to minutes Prop 165 & 166 5 35 SewardAC AC minutes 3 36 SEAFA Prop 200 - 201 1 37 Kevin Stack Prop 200 - 201 1 38 Mike Adams Prop 200 - 201 1 39 Stuart & Elaiine Meyer Prop 200 - 201 1 40 Chris Bourgeois Chitina fishery 1 41 Kenneth Adams Prop 200 2 42 Seafood Producers Coop Comment PC 38 - Prop 182 1 43 Tracy Morphis Prop 200 - 201 1 44 Simon Molodin Prop 200 - 201 1 45 Chad Roberts Prop 200 - 201 1 46 Robert Linville Prop 200 - 201 1 47 Eastern Interior RAC Yukon River Chinook 2 Page _~_'-,-__ RCLOG RC Board of Fisheries - Statewide Finfish, Supplemental Issues, Subsistence Finding Standards, and Chitina Dipnet Fishery. March 16 - 21, 2010, Anchorage Log # Source Description Pgs. 48 Charles Deville Prop 200 - 201 2 49 Mat Valley AC - Andy Letter re: petition 2 Couch 50 Mat Valley AC - Andy March 10, 2010 AC minutes 4 Couch 51 Richard Yamaha for Daiwa Electric reel proposals I Corp 52 Richard Yamaha for Electric reel proposals 1 Seldovia Fishing Adventure 53 Lloyd Gossman Ketchikan Gateway Borough comments 3 54 Torie O'Connell for AK Comments on proposals 3 Longline Fisherman Assoc 55 Torie O'Connell for ALFA Prop 175 & 180 1 56 Dianne Dubuc CIAA - 2009 Salmon Sales request for bids I 57 Bruce Knowles - Mayor's Letter supporting UCI emergency petition 3 Blue Ribbon Sportfishers 58 Bruce Knowles - Mayor's Comments on proposals 4 Blue Ribbon Sportfishers 59 ADF&G-CF Prop 167 substitute language I 60 ADF&G-CF Prop 173 substitute language I 61 Kurt & Karl Goetzinger Prop 200 - 201 I 62 Phillip Clark Prop 200-20 I 1 63 Snsitna Valley AC March 10, 2010 minutes I 64 Jeane Brenig Summer commercial crab opening 1 65 Ken Tarbox (via Dwight Slikok Creek closure 2 Kramer) 66 Ken Tarbox (via Dwight Prop 166 5 Kramer) 67 Paul Shadura- March 12, 2010 letter 2 Kenai/Soldotna Fish & GameAC 68 Paul Shadura - KPF A Proposal comments 3 69 Kenai / Soldotna Fish & Feb 10& 18,2010 minutes 4 GameAC Page ____3 _ RCLOG RC Board of Fisheries - Statewide Finfish, Supplemental Issues, Subsistence Finding Standards, and Chitina Dipnet Fishery. March 16 - 21, 2010, Anchorage Log # Source Description Pgs. 70 ADF&G-CF RC 2 update 6 71 ADF&G I Boards RC Index to date 2 72 ADF&G I Boards Public testimony for SWISupplemental portion 2 of meeting 73 Tory O'Connell Prop175&182 1 74 Mike Peterson Prop 177 1 75 Cambri & Luke Dallmann Prop 200-201 2 76 Mark Kaelke 2008 AFS- Report on whirling disease 14 77 Travis Watkins Prop 195 1 78 Sitka AC Prop 175 & 182 4 79 Randy Nichols Electric reels 1 80 Southcentral RAC, Ralph Prop 200 & 201 1 Lohse 81 Tory O'Connell (ALFA) BOF allocation criteria re: sablefish 2 82 Paul Shadura - KPF A Prop 169 & 172 2 83 Professional Guide Assoc. Prop 184 4 84 ADF&G/CF Dungeness sof1 shell issue 6 85 John Blair Prop 180 substitute language I 86 ADF&G Prop 172 substitute language 1 87 ADF&G Committee "A" Report 24 88 ADF&G Committee "B" Report 89 Ron Leighton Proposal 195 comment 1 90 Lloyd Gossman Proposal 195 comment 1 91 Steve Vanek Withdrawal of Proposal 165 I 92 Tad Fujioka - Sitka AC Sablefish biomass statistics 1 93 Brian Kraft Prop 184 support 1 Page __~-'- __ RCLOG RC Board of Fisheries - Statewide Finfish, Supplemental Issues, Subsistence Finding Standards, and Chitina Dipnet Fishery. March 16 - 21, 2010, Anchorage Log # Source Descriptiou Pgs. 94 Mike Kramer Chitina lawsuit papers 67 95 Tory O'Colli1ell ALFA Prop 180 & 182 substitute language 1 96 Mark Kaelke Prop 184 substitute language 1 97 Virgil UmphenoU1 Prop 200 subsistence definition 1 98 Dwight Kramer Prop 172 1 99 Ryan Kapp Prop 168 substitute language 3 100 ADF&G Map & subsistence data #195 3 101 Stanley Mack Prop 168 1 102 Howard De10 Mine site comments 3 103 KPFA - Joel Doner Prop 172 substitute language 2 104 Karl Jolmstone 1999 BOF transcript re: #201 82 105 Karl J olmstone 2003 BOF transcript re: #201 98 106 ADF&G/Boards RC Index updated 5 Page ~:5=-~~ 'j2.C (07 \ March 18,2010 Submitted by John Blair, SEAGO Re: Proposal #175 We believe regional allocation issues are best dealt with on a regional basis, and only statewide issues considered on a statewide basis. As such, we recommend that there be no statewide bag limits for sport catch of sablefish. Rationale: • Initial sablefish quotas in Southeast Alaska were established in 2009 with insufficient historical sport catch information upon which to base a realistic quota. As data collected in 2009 from the ADF&G showed minim"1 statewide sport harvest of sablefish we believe it is prudent to get an accurate assessment of sport market demand. • Information gained by the department from more robust data collection, starting in 2010, in the guide log books and the statewide hal'vest survey will be very valuable to determine an accurate assessment of statewide and region"1 sport demand for sablefish. • NMFS considers the stock to be sustainable. From their website, NMFS states that the Alaska TAe is below the sustainable harvest level. http://www.nmfs.noa".gov!fishwatch!species!sablefish.htm NMFS: SustoirlObility Status Biomass: The west coast sable/ish population is at 96% 0/ target levels, and Alaska at 101% oj target levels; • Overfishing: No • Overfished: No / RC: Victoria O'Connell, proposal 175 and 177 A new way to approach bag limits: The criteria the Board uses to set bag and possession limits that "provide for a reasonable level of angling opportunity and harvest while at the same time provide for protection against high levels of harvest that could be harmful to the health of the stocks". Instead of a discussion of what the current catch mayor may not be based on insufficient catch data the Board has the opportunity to take a different approach that could serve them in future scenarios as well: For fish with extreme longevity like blackcod and thornyheads, the bag limit is not to exceed two fish per day. This provides anglers with a reasonable opportunity to keep fish of any species but is respectful of the inherent difficulty in managing these long lived species. If a management plan, with an allocation, is implemented regionally or stiltewide, in the future, the bag, posseSSion, and annual limits could be adjusted to reflect a high population or low population stock level. In this manner the Board is acknowledging that these long-lived species are difficult to manage and are a valuable resource and need to have limits associated with removals. It doesn't reduce any angler's opportunity to sport fish for this species. In the case of blackcod and thornyhead for example most anglers are not taking any now ,so a 2 fish bag limit would not effectively decrease their opportunity - but provide reasonable access. For example, the bag limit for halibut was 2 daily for decades, well before there were allocation battles or declining stock trends and provided a reasonable opportunity. A two fish daily bag limit is actually greater than the average daily bag limit for marine finfish in Southeast now: (.+ ! tif .... (If \11« AllnU~ II ... ,,,. • Yelloweye (maximum age 118) 1 • Lingcod (maximum age 28) 1 • Halibut 1 or 2 (maximum age 55)- remember that the daily limit for halibut was 2 for decades and was considered a reasonable opportunity.