The Alaska Fisheries Information Network (AKFIN) supports the data needs of fisheries analysts and economists by consolidating commercial fisheries data and dispensing those data upon request. Here you’ll find information about the AKFIN project, and links to other AKFIN-provided resources. More…
The AKFIN Answers tool has been upgraded to 11.1.1.6.8, a version that fixes the previous problems experienced when exporting datasets to MS Excel. Prior to this upgrade, some cells values were suppressed in the MS Excel export; this did not affect comma-delimited or fixed-width file exports. If you encounter issues with this new version of AKFIN Answers, please contact Bob Ryznar at rryznar@psmfc.org.
AKFIN in conjunction with PSMFC has recently increased its support of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council Staff by providing GIS Support. Historically Council Staff sought ad hoc support or had its own staff member assigned to GIS. The current in-house data support AKFIN provides and the proficient GIS resources available through Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission provided a straight forward path to GIS support. For the February NPFMC meeting AKFIN-PSMFC provided several hundred maps including streaming monthly Prohibited Species Catch maps for the discussion paper on Bristol Bay red king crab.
It’s time for the seasonal AKFIN photo contest! Have you braved the Bering Sea? Adventured upon the Alaskan archipelago? Spent summers scraping scales? Now is your chance to submit an Alaskan Fisheries themed image to AKFIN to be exhibited on our website. Four new photos will be posted on the home page slideshow every quarter.
Please email submissions to kmclean@psmfc.org . We prefer photographs be in a .jpeg, .jpg or .gif format and between 2 and 5Mb, with a resolution around 180dpi.
AKFIN recently collaborated with Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) and NMFS Alaska Region staff to report economic performance indicators for five North Pacific catch share programs: IFQ sablefish and halibut, the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization program, AFA pollock, Central Gulf of Alaska rockfish, and Amendment 80 non-pollock trawl catcher/processors. Results will be published later this year in a NMFS Office of Science and Technology report.
On behalf of US Coast Guard (USCG), the National Marine Fisheries Service has requested that AKFIN provide a list of all commercial fishing vessels that operate in federal waters off Alaska and the West Coast. This database list will also include vessel registration and fishery permit information along with the top three landing ports by vessel for 2009, 2010, and 2011. This data request is in response to the Coast Guard Authorization Act (P. L. 111-281) signed on October 15, 2010, which made several significant changes to Chapter 45 of Title 46, requiring, among other things, the mandatory safety inspection by the USCG of all Commercial Fishing Vessels operating beyond 3NM.