2011 Annual Management Report Norton Sound, Port Clarence, and Kotzebue

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Management Report No. 12-39, Anchorage

This report provides information about the 2011 commercial and subsistence fisheries of Norton Sound, Port Clarence, and Kotzebue management areas of the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Region of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries. The Norton Sound, Port Clarence, and Kotzebue management areas consist of all waters from Point Romanof north of the Yukon River to Point Hope. Commercial and subsistence fisheries target 5 species of salmon: Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, sockeye O. nerka, chum O. keta, coho O. kisutch, and pink O. gorbuscha salmon; Pacific herring Clupea pallasii, red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus, and miscellaneous species such as inconnu (sheefish) Stenodus leucichthys, whitefish Coregonus laurettae, Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma, saffron cod Eleginus gracilis, and capelin Mallotus villosus.