GFC

Tom Gemmell, Marine Conservation Alliance

Mar 16-21.  BOF Statewide Finfish/Supplemental Issues, Anchorage Proposals  Legal Notice
Agenda       Roadmap     Dept. Comments

Mar 29-Apr 1.  Crab Plan Team, AFSC Seattle

Apr (TBA).  Non-Target Species

Apr 6-13.  NPFMC, Anchorage

Apr 6-9.  National Marine Animal Health and Stranding Network Conference, Shepherdstown, WV

Apr 9.  BOF 2010-2011 Proposals Due

April 10.  Comments due on NOAA Draft Catch Share Policy

Apr 13-16.  NPRB Science Panel

Apr 15-17.  ComFish Trade Show & Policy Forum, Kodiak

Apr 19.  Comments due on Amendment 91 to the FMP for Groundfish of the BSAI Management Area to manage Chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery
 
Apr 22.  At-Sea Processors Association Job Fair, Anchorage  

Apr 25-29.  Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fishing:  Forecasting Impacts, Assessing Ecosystem Responses, and Evaluating Management Strategies.  Sendai, Japan  Agenda

Apr 26-30.  16th Western Groundfish Conference, Juneau Corrected Date

Apr 27-29.  European Seafood Exposition, Brussels

May 3-4.  NPRB Advisory Panel

May 5-6.  NPRB

May 11-13.  Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum, Beaufort, NC

May 17-21.  Council Chairs Meeting, Anchorage

May 28.  AK Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate on Thursday, 7-9pm, Kodiak  Date Change

Jun 7-14.  NPFMC, Sitka

Jun 9-12.  Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

Jun 15-17.  World Ocean Council “Sustainable Ocean Summit”, Belfast, Ireland

Jun 25-26.  Fish Ireland 2010, Killybegs, Ireland

Jul 7-10.  Copper River Wild Salmon Festival, Cordova  

Aug 27.  BOF ACR deadline

Aug TBD. NPRB Science Panel  

Sep 20-24. (Approx).  Groundfish Plan Teams, Seattle

Sep 20-21.  NPRB Advisory Panel

Sep 22-24.   NPRB
 
Oct 4-11.  NPFMC, Anchorage

Oct 13-14.  BOF Worksession ACRs, cycle organization, stocks of concern.  Kenai or Soldotna.

Oct 22-31.  PICES Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (North Pacific Ecosystems Today, and Challenges in Understanding and Forecasting Change)  

Nov 1-5.  North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Annual Meeting, Busan, Korea

Nov 8-11. 26th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium.  Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management.  Anchorage
 
Nov 14-17.  NOAA.  Energy Uses in the Fisheries:  Improving Efficiency and Technological Innovations from a Global Perspective, Seattle Sheraton
 
Nov 15-17.  BOF Lower Cook Inlet Finfish, Homer.
 
Nov 15-19.  Groundfish Plan Team, Seattle
 
Dec 6-13.  NPFMC, Anchorage

Fish Calendar 2011

Jan 10-14.  BOF Kodiak finfish, Kodiak.

Jan 16-18.  BOF Chignik finfish, Anchorage.

Jan 31-Feb 8.  NPFMC, Seattle

Feb 9-11.  SWAMC’s 2011 Economic Summit & Membership Meeting

Feb 20-Mar 5.  BOF upper Cook Inlet finfish, Anchorage.

Mar 22-27.  BOF King and Tanner Crab (Statewide, except Southeast/Yakutat) and Supplemental Issues, Anchorage
 
Mar 28-Apr 5.  NPFMC, Anchorage
 
Apr 26-27.  NPRB Advisory Panel

Apr 28-29.  NPRB   

Mar.  North American Association of Fisheries Economists, Honolulu, HI

Jun TBD.  NPFMC

Sep.  Lowell Wakefield Symposium:  Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change
 
Sep 13-14. NPRB Advisory Panel

Sep 15-16. NPRB   
 
Sep 26. NPFMC, Unalaska
 
Dec 5-13.  NPFMC, Anchorage