Winter quota to spring hatchery fisheries

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Winter quota to spring hatchery fisheries

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Board of Fisheries proposals due on the 10th of April. Here is one a friend of mine drafted.
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Well, lets try this again.
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Final try.

ALASKA BOARD OF FISHERIES AND ALASKA BOARD OF GAME
REGULATION PROPOSAL FORM, P.O. BOX 25526, JUNEAU, ALASKA 99802-5526
BOARD OF FISHERIES REGULATIONS
□ Fishing Area ___Southeast Alaska________
□ Subsistence □ Personal Use
□ Sport x Commercial
JOINT BOARD REGULATIONS
□ Advisory Committee □ Regional Council □ Rural
BOARD OF GAME REGULATIONS
Game Management Unit (GMU) ___________
□ Hunting □ Trapping
□ Subsistence □ Other ___________
□Resident
□Nonresident

Please answer all questions to the best of your ability. All answers will be printed in the proposal packets along with the proposer's name (address and phone numbers. will not be published). Use separate forms for each proposal.
1. Alaska Administrative Code Number 5 AAC 29.080 and 5AAC29.090 Regulation Book Page No. 385
2. What is the problem you would like the Board to address. Currently uncaught winter toll Chinook quota is transferred to the July fishery effectively bypassing May and June fisheries. This transfer of fish from a time of high value in the spring to a time of lower value in the summer does not maximize the dollar value of the resource.


3. What will happen if this problem is not solved? If winter quota is not reached the remaining uncaught fish will be caught months later when the price per pound is significantly lower.
4. What solution do you prefer? In other words, if the Board adopted your solution, what would the new
regulation say? In the event that winter Chinook quota (43-47,000) is uncaught, then Spring troll fisheries in May and June shall adopt flexible or upward adjusting caps to integrate uncaught winter Chinook quota into the May and June spring troll fisheries. For example: If 20,000 winter kings are not caught then the caps could be adjusted upward from what they read now as follows in 5AAC 29.020:
(i) no more than [1,000] 1500 non-Alaska hatchery-produced salmon may be taken in a fishery if the percentage of Alaska hatchery-produced salmon taken in that fishery is less than 25 percent of the king salmon taken in that fishery; 

(ii) no more than [2,000] 2500 non-Alaska hatchery-produced salmon may be taken in a fishery if the percentage of Alaska hatchery-produced salmon taken in that fishery is at least 25 percent but less than 35 percent of the king salmon taken in that fishery; 

(iii) no more than [3,000] 3500 non-Alaska hatchery-produced salmon may be taken in a fishery if the percentage of Alaska hatchery-produced salmon taken in that fishery is at least 35 percent but less than 50 percent of the king salmon taken in that fishery; 

(iv) no more than 5,000 non-Alaska hatchery-produced salmon may be taken in a fishery if the percentage of Alaska hatchery-produced salmon taken in that fishery is at least 50 percent but less than 66 percent of the king salmon taken in that fishery;

 Quota shall not directly transfer from winter to summer without the opportunity to be harvested in the spring.
We cannot predict exactly how the caps should be adjusted by area to in each spring to harvest 20,000, or whatever the figure is, more high value treaty Chinook and also increase the Alaska Hatchery Chinook harvest by trollers. If the Board of Fisheries is favorable toward this proposal we would hope the details of how many fish to add to each of the caps would be worked out with Department staff and trollers during the committee process.


5. Does your proposal address improving the quality of the resource harvested or products produced? If so, how? This proposal aims to bring more value to the troll fishery by harvesting Chinook in the spring when the market value is highest. It also increases the number of Alaska Hatchery Chinook Harvested.
6. Solutions to difficult problems benefit some people and hurt others:

A. Who is likely to benefit if your solution is adopted? Alaska residents and trollers, consumers will have more access to product, and the communities who depend on commercial fishing dollars will benefit. Also, implementing higher springtime caps will help to increase the catch of Alaska hatchery fish.

B. Who is likely to suffer if your solution is adopted? Fishermen who are out of state and involved in other fisheries in the spring would not be able to harvest uncaught winter fish in the summer months.

7. List any other solutions you considered and why you rejected them.
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