Author: Steve J. Hayes

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 145

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The 2009 Yukon and Northern management report summarizes management activities of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries in the Yukon and Northern Areas of Alaska. The report provides the Yukon Area status of salmon stocks in 2009 with reference to historical data, presents an outlook for the 2010 fishing season, and provides data on the utilization of salmon species by commercial and subsistence (aboriginal) harvests, personal use (domestic), and sport (recreational) fishery. Alaska and Canada fisheries are summarized as the Yukon River is a transboundary river. The report further compiles summaries of selected Yukon River projects (e.g., mark-recapture, sonar, stock identification) and a review of salmon bycatch in the groundfish and pollock fisheries of the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. Complete documentation of these projects and results may appear in separate reports. Fisheries data in this report supersedes information in previous annual management reports. Some of the data presented are preliminary and may be presented with minor differences in future reports. The Yukon Area report is organized into the following sections: 1) Salmon Fishery: this section presents a description of the area, fishery resources, and fisheries management practices, and a comprehensive report of the 2009 salmon fisheries, by summer and fall season, and makes comparisons with previous years, 2) Cape Romanzof District Herring Fishery: this section presents a description of the area, fishery resources, fisheries and management practices, and summary of the 2009 herring fishery, and 3) Other Marine and Freshwater Finfish Fisheries: this section presents a description of the fishery resources and freshwater finfish fisheries other than salmon and herring and 4) Northern Area, which includes a description of the area and documentation of the Colville River commercial freshwater finfish fishery.