The Alaska Board of Fisheries is holding a special meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Monday January 25, through the online platform Zoom.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reports that at the Board of Fisheries October 2020 work session, the previously postponed Prince William Sound Finfish and Shellfish, AND Southeast and Yakutat Finfish and Shellfish meetings were rescheduled to March 30-April 5, 2021 and April 17-29, 2021. The same dates for the Statewide All Shellfish meeting of March 5-10, 2021 didn’t change.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the board will address whether meetings should be conducted in-person, via web conference or postponed further. No regulatory action will be taken. According to the special meeting notice, some possible agenda items include whether to conduct some or all of the regulatory meetings through web conferencing, which of the current 2020/2021 proposals are urgent to address prior to June 30, 2021, and what criteria the board should consider if it chooses to address some 2020/2021 proposals through web conference.
To ease the discussion, the board asks that written public comments on meeting agenda items be submitted by Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Comments related to the agenda items submitted to the boards for consideration at previous board meetings will be included in the meeting materials and don’t need to be resubmitted.
Additional comments may be emailed to dfg.bof.comments@alaska.gov, entered on the Board’s main webpage at www.boardoffisheries.adfg.
This meeting is open to the public. A live audio stream is intended to be available on the board’s website at www.boardoffisheries.adfg.
The agenda and any other meeting documents, will be available prior to the meeting on the board’s meeting information webpage at: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/