Don't Let this happen in PWS

[polardds]

Juneau Area Section 11-A Closed to Personal Use and Sport Shrimp Fishing July 1, 2013

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fi...HR-E-14-13.pdf


So they close all shrimping, which needs to be done, but shouldn't the problem have been intercepted before this had to happen? Not trying to make this into a sport/personal use Vs commercial bash thread.

Just don't want to see this happen in PWS.

[Bullelkklr]

Good luck with that. It is going to happen. Too much pressure. The ADFG will fubar it............

[AGL4now]

Way too many HUMANS in Alaska. All yelling, mine, mine, mine, "Mommy, he got more than me". People love Alaska for what they can "GET". For what they are entitled to "GET". Hundreds of thousands of more humans will migrate to Alaska, in the coming years. Each wanting to "RAPE" the land, few, very few willing to just hike into the wilderness for the only objective being what they can keep in their memory. Not to kill something, but the only goal being the Pure Bliss of Being Alone in the Wilderness.

Now days humans race year-around (Mostly on Machines) all thirsty for the harvest of what they can kill. It is not that it is wrong, it is that it is wrong with hundreds of thousands of humans all mad for the killing of what ever is legal to kill......be it fish or game. The problem is the thundering HOARDS of humans.

[Aksigns]

Original post is spot on!! Don't let this happen in your area, where ever that may be.

Red king crab in this area is also shut down as well. Overfished.

I've fished this area for almost 4 decades and it should have been monitored better by ADFG and us - including me! Hopefully things change on the bag limits if it ever returns.

Doesn't PWS have an allocation system for the comm guys? I think that might be the best thing for here, at least in the near Juneau 11A zone..

[Hoyt-Hunter]

Way too many HUMANS in Alaska. All yelling, mine, mine, mine, "Mommy, he got more than me". People love Alaska for what they can "GET". For what they are entitled to "GET". Hundreds of thousands of more humans will migrate to Alaska, in the coming years. Each wanting to "RAPE" the land, few, very few willing to just hike into the wilderness for the only objective being what they can keep in their memory. Not to kill something, but the only goal being the Pure Bliss of Being Alone in the Wilderness.

Now days humans race year-around (Mostly on Machines) all thirsty for the harvest of what they can kill. It is not that it is wrong, it is that it is wrong with hundreds of thousands of humans all mad for the killing of what ever is legal to kill......be it fish or game. The problem is the thundering HOARDS of humans.

I have said the same thing so many times, but it seems to fall on deaf ears.


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[Anythingalaska]

Juneau Area Section 11-A Closed to Personal Use and Sport Shrimp Fishing July 1, 2013

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fi...HR-E-14-13.pdf


So they close all shrimping, which needs to be done, but shouldn't the problem have been intercepted before this had to happen? Not trying to make this into a sport/personal use Vs commercial bash thread.

Just don't want to see this happen in PWS.

First of all, the shrimp season in Southeast is much different than PWS. In PWS there is only a short opening time when everyone races out and laces up the entire sound with shrimp pots. Here in Southeast the shrimp season is open all year; 365 days. So in a way, "it" has already happened in PWS, long before here. Too many people equates to overfishing in easily accessible areas near towns.

Glad we don't have that problem over here on the outside. Shrimping is still open all year and our stocks are healthy. Of course we don't have a huge population like Juneau. As an added bonus, we still have a 10 month long Red King crab personal use fishery that started July 1st...

...Speaking of which; I better thaw some more bait and go check my pots on Friday.:nyanya:

[potbuilder]

First of all, the shrimp season in Southeast is much different than PWS. In PWS there is only a short opening time when everyone races out and laces up the entire sound with shrimp pots. Here in Southeast the shrimp season is open all year; 365 days. So in a way, "it" has already happened in PWS, long before here. Too many people equates to overfishing in easily accessible areas near towns.

Glad we don't have that problem over here on the outside. Shrimping is still open all year and our stocks are healthy. Of course we don't have a huge population like Juneau. As an added bonus, we still have a 10 month long Red King crab personal use fishery that started July 1st...

...Speaking of which; I better thaw some more bait and go check my pots on Friday.:nyanya:

Yeah they race out from april 15th to sept 15th and lace up the sound with 5 pots per boat but there are a average of 3000 rec permits issued every year.

[rosscoak]

A little insight into how adfg came to this closure.....they have one sample area (which is a well known close to auke bay area) they also used the test pot results from one commercial boat.....adfg will be asked at a local ac meeting how and why this came to be. This is not a case of rec vs commercial..it is a case of poor sampling.

[Anythingalaska]

Yeah they race out from april 15th to sept 15th and lace up the sound with 5 pots per boat but there are a average of 3000 rec permits issued every year.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Nonetheless a 6 month period with 3000 boats fishing 15,000 pots is a lot compared to where I live. We can fish a larger area, with less people, with 20 pots per boat, and our season is twice as long. So I guess we're spoiled down here.:topjob:

[sayak]

Way too many HUMANS in Alaska. All yelling, mine, mine, mine, "Mommy, he got more than me". People love Alaska for what they can "GET". For what they are entitled to "GET". Hundreds of thousands of more humans will migrate to Alaska, in the coming years. Each wanting to "RAPE" the land, few, very few willing to just hike into the wilderness for the only objective being what they can keep in their memory. Not to kill something, but the only goal being the Pure Bliss of Being Alone in the Wilderness.

Now days humans race year-around (Mostly on Machines) all thirsty for the harvest of what they can kill. It is not that it is wrong, it is that it is wrong with hundreds of thousands of humans all mad for the killing of what ever is legal to kill......be it fish or game. The problem is the thundering HOARDS of humans.

I fear you are right. I don't know which is worse: the "I'm gonna get all I can get!" crowd, or the "Don't touch it, it's wild nature!" crowd. Either way, if you love the way Alaska used to be, you are screwed.

[Paul H]

Original post is spot on!! Don't let this happen in your area, where ever that may be.

Red king crab in this area is also shut down as well. Overfished.

I've fished this area for almost 4 decades and it should have been monitored better by ADFG and us - including me! Hopefully things change on the bag limits if it ever returns.

Doesn't PWS have an allocation system for the comm guys? I think that might be the best thing for here, at least in the near Juneau 11A zone..

I think it's already happening, and the bulk of the shrimp are taken by sports fishermen, not the comm fleet.

Sadly the track record for ADF&G is to wait a season or two past the point that a fishery has obviously crashed before taking action.

[Aksigns]

Paul H. I agree that someone is asleep at ADFG on monitoring the red king crab and shrimp fisheries down here in the Juneau area, but I don't think sport take is even close to that of the com fleet. Check these numbers out for shrimp.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...vest_shrimppot

[Anythingalaska]

Paul H. I agree that someone is asleep at ADFG on monitoring the red king crab and shrimp fisheries down here in the Juneau area, but I don't think sport take is even close to that of the com fleet. Check these numbers out for shrimp.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...vest_shrimppot

I think he was referring to PWS, not southeast.

[Bullelkklr]

The PWS PU fleet has slightly more allocation than the commercial shrimp fleet. I would not say that the Personal Use shrimpers harvest the "bulk" of them - not if you believe the harvest reports.

I don't remember the numbers exactly, but I believe that the commercial fleet was limited to about 66K pounds and the PU is just a little higher than that.

At least the comm shrimpers have to rotate areas. The PU group pounds the he!! out of the same close in areas year after year after year.

[FishGod]

The PWS PU fleet has slightly more allocation than the commercial shrimp fleet. I would not say that the Personal Use shrimpers harvest the "bulk" of them - not if you believe the harvest reports.

I don't remember the numbers exactly, but I believe that the commercial fleet was limited to about 66K pounds and the PU is just a little higher than that.

At least the comm shrimpers have to rotate areas. The PU group pounds the he!! out of the same close in areas year after year after year.

Commfish gets 40% and sport/PU get 60%

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fi...p_2013gass.pdf