Alaska’s Board of Fisheries 2015-2016 Proposal Book is now online for review.
This Board of Fisheries meeting cycle does not include proposals from the Kenai Peninsula but Board Executive Director Glenn Haight said agenda change requests will be reviewed this October.
Haight: “And if someone has a proposal that’s not within those regulatory areas, they can submit an agenda change request to the board and the board will look at that and see if they want to schedule it for this meeting cycle.”
This year’s book includes 215 proposals for the regulator areas of Alaska Peninsula / Chignik / Bering Sea-Aleutian Island Pacific cod, Bristol Bay finfish, Arctic / Yukon / Kuskokwim finfish, Alaska Peninsula / Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands / Chignik finfish, and Statewide Finfish regulatory meetings.
The board will consider Statewide Finfish and supplemental issues at their March 8-12 meetings.
The next time the Board of Fisheries will consider proposals from the Kenai Peninsula will be October of 2017 at the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish Meeting.
The Kenai City Council has been working to move that 2017 meeting to the Kenai Peninsula instead of Anchorage which Haight said may be reviewed by the Board at this upcoming October 21-22 meeting.
