The Alaska Board of Fisheries have announced the approaching deadline for submissions of the 2022/2023 meeting cycle agenda change requests. Agenda change requests are submitted by the public, advisory committees, and agencies for proposals on regulatory areas and species not set for deliberation in the current meeting cycle.
The board will review agenda change requests for possible scheduling in the 2022/2023 meeting cycle at their work session in Anchorage at the Egan Convention Center on October 25 and 26. For the board to approve and schedule an agenda change request for later in the meeting cycle, it has to meet one of the following criteria as established in 5 AAC 39.999:
- For a fishery conservation purpose or reason.
- To correct an error in a regulation.
- To correct an effect on a fishery that was unforeseen when a regulation was adopted.
- In addition to the above criteria, the board will not accept an agenda change request that is predominantly allocative in nature in the absence of new information found by the board to be compelling
The agenda change requests are due to Boards Support Section by August 26, 2022. A postmark is NOT sufficient for timely receipt, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. They can be submitted online, by mail, email or fax, at:
- Online: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/
index.cfm?adfg=fisheriesboard. forms - Mail: ADF&G, Boards Support Section, P.O. Box 115526, Juneau, AK 99811-5526
- Email: dfg.bof.comments@alaska.gov
- Fax: (907) 465-6094