2014-11-24 Special Meeting Kodiak Island Borough
Assembly Special Meeting Guidelines
November 24, 2014, Borough Conference Room
1. ROLL CALL
KIBC 2.16.070.... the Chair shall cause the record to reflect the absence of the member, the
REASON for the absence, and whether the absence is excused by the Assembly.
Recommended motion: Move to excuse Assembly members Austerman, Griffin,
Lynch, and LeDoux who are absent due to personal leave.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION.
2. CITIZENS' COMMENTS (These are limited to three minutes per speaker.)
A. Agenda Items not scheduled for public hearing and general comments.
ASK SPEAKERS TO SIGN IN AND STATE THEIR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
3. CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS IN THE CALL FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING
1. Alaska Groundfish Data Bank (AGDB) Proposal 26 "Trip Limit" Letter of Support
Recommended motion: Move to authorize the Mayor to execute sign the Letter of
Support for the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank Proposal 26 "Trip Limit".
Staff Report— Manager Cassidy
Assembly discussion.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION.
4. ADJOURNMENT
Recommended motion: Move to adjourn the meeting.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION.
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PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Glenn Haight, 907-465-6095
For Immediate Release: November 7, 20.14
Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Cordova, December 3-8, 2014 on Prince
William Sound and Upper Copper and Upper Susitna Rivers Finfish
The Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) will meet December 3-8, 2014, at the Mt. Eccles Elementary
School, 201 Adams Street, Cordova, Alaska. During this six day public meeting, the board will meet to
consider 57 proposals regarding finfish issues submitted by the general public, fishing organizations,
local Fish and Game Advisory Committees, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
In addition to submitting written public comments, the board invites the public to give oral public
testimony during the meeting beginning December 3. Any person intending to testify must sign up at
the meeting site at the Mt. Eccles Elementary School in Cordova. The tentative deadline for signing up
is 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3. Public testimony will continue until members of the public
who signed up before the deadline and are present have been given an opportunity to testify.
All portions of the meeting are open to the public and a live audio stream is intended to be available on
the Board of Fisheries website at www=.boardoffisheries.adfg.alaska.sov. Documents submitted to the
board are intended to be posted online throughout the meeting. Copies of advanced meeting materials,
including the agenda and roadmap, are available from Boards Support Section, 907-465-4110, or
online at: http://www.adig.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adf_=fisheriesboard.mcetinginfo.
The board encourages the public to submit written comments on specific proposals and is accepting
on-time public comment until November 21. After November 21, written public comments arc limited
to 10 single-sided or 5 double-sided pages in length from any one individual or group. These comments
are recorded as record copies and inserted in board member workbooks at the beginning of the meeting,
and accepted until the board begins deliberation of proposals.
Once proposal deliberations begin, the board will ONLY accept written public comments not more than
five single-sided pages, or the equivalent double-sided pages. The board may relax this requirement if
specific information is requested by the board requiring more pages than allowed under this standard.
See http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adf=process.comments for details on public comment.
During the meeting, written public comments from any one individual or group may be submitted by
hand delivery at any time if 28 copies are provided. As a practical matter, comments submitted after the
board begins deliberations on relevant proposals are likely to receive less consideration than comments
submitted earlier. Individuals not in attendance can submit written comments by fax to (907) 465-6094.
Training opportunity: The Boards Support Section is offering a new training course. How to be
Effective at Board Meeting. The training course is open for public and advisory committee members. It
will be held twice at the Mt. Eccles Elementary School in the committee breakout room, starting at
7:00 p.m. on December 2 and 3. Call Boards Support, 907-465-4110, for more information.
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PROPOSAL 26 —5 AAC 28.263. Prince William Sound Pollock Management Plan.
PROPOSED BY: Bill Fejes for Polar Seafoods.
WHAT WOULD THE PROPOSAL DO?This proposal would establish a trip limit of 200,000
lb and prohibit use of tenders during the PWS walleye pollock pelagic trawl fishery.
WHAT ARE THE CURRENT REGULATIONS? The PWS walleye pollock pelagic trawl
fishery harvest limit is 300,000 lb per trip (5 AAC 28.073). Tenders are limited to possessing no
more than 600,000 lb of unprocessed walleye pollock onboard in a single calendar day (5 AAC
28.073).
WHAT WOULD BE THE EFFECT IF THE PROPOSAL WERE ADOPTED? The fishery
would be prosecuted at a slower pace because fishermen would be required to stop fishing and
offload after retaining 200,000 lb of walleye pollock in a given trip. The slower pace could
facilitate more timely management decisions in regards to bycatch limits. Increased transit times
and fuel costs would be significant, especially for the majority of the fleet that deliver their
harvest to Kodiak processors. Kodiak is 275 miles away from central PWS.
BACKGROUND: The walleye pollock pelagic trawl fishery begins January 20, which coincides
with the opening of federal Gulf of Alaska walleye pollock trawl fishery. Harvest in this state-
waters fishery has ranged between a high of 6.33 million lb in 1995 and 1.40 million lb in 2008
(Table 26-I). Annual participation has ranged from fewer than 3 vessels to 19 vessels. Vessel
participation has been high in recent years with 14 vessels participating in 2013 and 19 vessels in
2014, the highest levels in the history of the fishery. Although allowed by regulation, no tenders
have participated in this fishery.
The length of the season has varied. In the earliest years of the fishery, the season lasted
approximately one week (Table 26-1). Between 1999 and 2010, season length varied between 36
days and 84 days. The season has shortened in recent years (201 1-2014) with the 2014 season
only 7 days long. The average delivery size in the past 10 years was 261,812 lb with a high of
319,569 lb (over the trip limit) and a low 01'25,198 lb, both in 2014.
In the 2014 season, all participating vessels except for one delivered their harvest to a processor
in Kodiak; that one exception delivered to a processor in Seward, 90 miles from central PWS.
Although bycatch in this fishery is low relative to other groundfish fisheries, bycatch rates have
sometimes warranted management measures; bycatch is shown in Table 26-2 as both pounds
harvested and as a percentage of round weight of walleye pollock harvested. In 2002, there was
a dramatic increase in bycatch rates for all species. At the following board meeting, the
department committed to encourage cleaner fishing practices in the PWS walleye pollock fishery
by apportioning the bycatch percentage to the following groups: rockfish (0.5%), salmon
(0.04%), sharks (0.96%), squid (3.0%), and other species (0.5%). Inseason bycatch information
is transmitted to the department but is not always very accurate and full accounting of bycatch
may not be available until after the closure of the fishery, when all fish ticket data are reviewed.
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In 2008, 2009, and 2014 the pollock fishery was closed because bycatch limits for rockfish were
exceeded, and in 2014 the bycatch limit for squid was also exceeded.
DEPARTMENT COMMENTS: The department is NEUTRAL on this allocative proposal.
COST ANALYSIS: Approval of this proposal could increase fuel costs for participants in the
fishery.
Table 26-I.—Annual guideline harvest level (GHL), season length, number of vessels, and harvest
from the PWS walleye pollock trawl fishery, 1995-2014.
GHL Season Harvest Harvest Test fish
Year (million lb) days Vessels (Ib) (%ofGHL) (lb)
1995 2.1-4.4 26 9 6,325,575 144% 215,025
1996 3.1 5 II 3,265,740 106% 421,137
1997 3.9 8 10 4,319,707 98% 539,123
1998 3.9 7 11 4,031,725 102% 631,751
1999 4.6 36 6 4,673,074 106% 490,761
2000a 3.1 70 4 2,256,504 72% 366,724
2001 3.1 64 " b b 381,502
2002 3.8 70 3 2,364,143 62% 177,071
2003 3.8 84 3 2,421,773 55% 54,224
2004 2.0 68 3 1,928,458 95% 400,677
2005 2.0 48 6 1,677,157 38% 317,183
2006 3.6 58 8 3,486,449 96% 590
2007 3.6 69 5 2,339,978 53% 259,155
2008 3.6 56 5 1,395,933 38% 0
2009 3.6 60 8 3,249,441 74% 300,806
2010 3.6 42 11 3,662,919 101% 311,853
2011 3.6 17 7 3,377,325 77% 339,683
2012 6.1 24 9 5,785,295 95% 0
2013 5.8 14 14 5,770,151 100% 496,856
2014 8.6 7 19 5,220,121 61% 0
Average
2000-2014 4.0 50 7 3,210,338 73% 299,768
Walleye pollock harvest sections were created in 2000.
Confidential information.
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Table 26-2.—Walleye pollock harvest and bycatch by species or group in the PWS pollock fishery, 1995-2014.
Reported bycatch a b
Year Pollock harvest Rockfish Salmon Shark Squid Misc. Total bycatch
lb % lb % lb % lb % lb % lb %
1995 6,325,575 67 0.00% 76 0.00% 378 0.01% 1,346 0.02% 5,135 0.08% 7,002 0.11%
1996 3,265,552 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,724 0.08% 437 0.01% 3,836 0.12% 6,997 0.21%
1997 4,319,707 12 0.00% 42 0.00% 648 0.02% 17,016 0.39% 2,076 0.05% 19,794 0.46%
1998 4,013,725 10 0.00% 285 0.01% 7,825 0.19% 21,663 0.54% 11,909 0.30% 41,692 1.04%
1999 4,673,074 260 0.01% 2,088 0.04% 14,022 0.30% 5,968 0.13% 2,727 0.06% 25,065 0.54%
2000 2,256,504 1,368 0.06% 535 0.02% 2,024 0.09% 5,487 0.24% 974 0.04% 10,388 0.46%
2001 3,128,036 4,031 0.13% 372 0.01% 4,061 0.13% 30,499 0.98% 1,594 0.05% 40,557 1.30%
2002 2,364,143 28,993 1.23% 1,262 0.05% 52,480 2.22% 179,933 7.61% 3,431 0.15% 266,099 11.26%
2003 2,421,772 . 3,824 0.16% 189 0.01% 7,254 0.30% 20,417 0.84% 8,319 0.34% 40,003 1.65%
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2004 1,928,458 2,086 0.11% 151 0.01% 3,148 0.16% 10,890 0.56% 3,848 0.20% 20,123 1.04%
2005 1,677,157 8,289 0.49% 775 0.05% 11,483 0.68% 6,044 0.36% 9,841 0.59% 36,432 2.17%
2006 3,486,499 11,303 0.32% 635 0.02% 3,461 0.10% 31,813 0.91% 17,846 0.51% 65,058 1.87%
2007 2,339,978 10,262 0.44% 836 0.04% 2,650 0.11% 11,155 0.48% 2,233 0.10% 27,136 1.16%
2008 1,395,933 20,790 1.49% 48 0.00% 1,550 0.11% 30,619 2.19% 1,066 0.08% 54,073 3.87%
2009 3,249,441 21,093 0.65% 142 0.00% 19,101 0.59% 15,747 0.48% 14,115 0.43% 70.199 2.16%
2010 3,662,919 3,594 0.10% 223 0.01% 3,133 0.09% 17,052 0.47% 21,854 0.60% 45,856 1.25%
2011 3,377,325 5,290 0.16% 50 0.00% 411 0.01% 15,006 0.44% 2,410 0.07% 23,167 0.69%
2012 5,785,295 16,904 0.29% 1,431 0.02% 1,810 0.03% 8,123 0.14% 12,682 0.22% 40,950 0.71%
2013 5,779,241 27,824 0.48% 61 0.00% 3,230 0.06% 86,116 1.49% 3,401 0.06% 120,632 2.09%
2014 5,220,121 67,446 1.29% 260 0.00% 526 0.01% 171,946 3.29% 24,322 0.47% 264,500 5.07%
a Includes at-sea discards.
° Test fish not included.
Minutes of this and other assembly meetings as well as copies of agenda items are available at the Borough Clerk’s Office or on the Kodiak
Island Borough’s website www.kodiakak.us. The next regular meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is scheduled on Thursday,
December 4, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Borough Assembly Chambers.
At its Special Meeting of November 24, 2014, Kodiak Island Borough Assembly There Was No Action Taken Due to
a Lack of Quorum. The Meeting Was Rescheduled to December 2, 2014.
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