Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area
Fishery Advisory Announcements
- Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Longline Vessels Greater Than or Equal To 50 Feet (PDF 102 kB) - 3/15/23
- Cook Inlet Area State-Waters Pacific Cod Season Closes To Pot Vessels Greater Than 58 ft in Length (PDF 81 kB) - 3/5/23
- Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Longline Vessels Less Than 50 Feet in Length (PDF 62 kB) - 2/27/23
- Cook Inlet Area Pacific Cod Parallel Season Closes to Pot Gear Pacific Cod State-Waters Season Opens to Pot Gear (PDF 584 kB) - 2/23/23
- Cook Inlet Area 2022 Parallel Pacific Cod Seasons Close December 31 2023 Parallel Pacific Cod Seasons Open January 1 (PDF 644 kB) - 12/22/22
- 2023 Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet Groundfish Outlook (PDF 1,142 kB) - 12/16/22
Emergency Orders
Harvest
- Cook Inlet Lingcod - Including Federal Waters
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod - Parallel Season
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod - State-Waters Season
- Cook Inlet Rockfish
- Cook Inlet Sablefish
- Groundfish Catch Statistics (NMFS Link)
Management & Announcements
Annual Management Reports
- Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2016-2018 (PDF 2,391 kB)
- Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Management Report, 2012-2015 (PDF 1,571 kB)
Regulations
Forecasts
- 2022 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 1,128 kB)
- 2021 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 649 kB)
- 2020 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 500 kB)
- 2019 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 565 kB)
- 2018 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 569 kB)
- 2017 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 566 kB)
- 2016 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 500 kB)
- 2015 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 498 kB)
- 2014 Central Region Groundfish Fisheries Outlook (PDF 492 kB)
Maps
Cook Inlet Districts
Statewide Maps