Newsletter - Winter 2010 Salmon Bycatch Update 2010 YRDFA Resolutions

Fishery Updates

• The Facts on Salmon Bycatch
  Updates from December 2009
1. Salmon Bycatch Management in the Bering Sea Walleye Pollock Fishery: Threats and Opportunities for Western Alaska
2. Pollock Industry Choices under the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's 2009 Action
 
• YRDFA's 19th Annual Meeting, Hooper Bay
  March 2-5, 2009 (continued on April 6, 2009 in Fairbanks)

Attended by subsistence and commercial fishermen, legislators, state and federal managers and representatives drainage wide!

Click here to read meeting summary.

• A Riverwide Meeting on the Size of Yukon River Chinook Salmon
  October 30, 2006
  
  

  Click here for a copy of the meeting agenda.

  Local observations by Yukon River fishers, from Alaska and Canada, were shared and a group discussion on how to monitor and preserve Yukon River Chinook (king) salmon ensued. Presentations on the science of fish size were also given...

  1. What We Know About Changing Size of Fish: YR Panel Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Whitepaper
     Presented by Dani Evenson, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, JTC ASL Subcommittee Co-Chair
  2. Size-Selective Fishing and Its Implications for Salmon
     Presented by Jeff Hard, Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
  3. Marine Conditions and Ocean-wide Effects on the Size of Salmon
     Presented by Jack Helle, Auke Bay Lab, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

  Click here for a copy of the meeting minutes. Check back later for a meeting summary.

• 2006-07 Board of Fish Proposals
  Click here for a copy of the proposals. For more information visit the Board of Fisheries website.
• 2007-08 Federal Subsistence Board Proposals
  Click here for a copy of the proposals. For more information visit the Federal Subsistence Board website.
• Read about the Status of Yukon River Salmon Stocks (0.4 MB) by Kristin Mull, April 2006
• Read about the Unintended Catch: Bycatch of Yukon River Salmon in the Pollock Fishery (0.2 MB) by Becca Robbins, March 2006. Reprinted with permission from Fishermen's News.
• Read about Reducing Salmon Bycatch in the Pollock Fishery (0.5 MB) by Becca Robbins, December 2005