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2008 Calendar

May 2008

29 Apr - 2 May. GeoHab 2008: Deep-sea Marine Benthic Habitats and High-seas Marine Protected Areas, Sitka

Apr 30-May 1.  NPRB, Anchorage

May 3.  Alaska Fishermens Memorial in Juneau Blessing of the Fleet

May 6.  ASMI International Marketing Committee (IMC), Icicle Seafoods located at 4019 - 21st Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98199.  Begin at 9:00 a.m.

May 6-9.  Crab plan team meeting, Seattle AFSC  Agenda  (Rev 4/16)

May 7.  ASMI Retail Marketing Committee (IMC), Icicle Seafoods located at 4019 - 21st Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98199.  Begin at 2:00 p.m.

May 6-9.  Council Coordination Committee, St Thomas, VI

May 13-16SSL Mitigation Committee, Seward Agenda

May 13-14. Ninth Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference "Ensuring Seafood Supply in a Changing World", Vancouver BC 

May 14.  Comments due on Proposed regulations to address subsistence halibut management in densely populated areas 

May 15.  Comments due on proposed rule to implement Amendment 26 to the FMP for BSAI King and Tanner Crabs 

May 19.  Comments due on amendment 24 to the FMP for BSAI King and Tanner Crabs

May 19-23International Symposium:  Effect’s of Climate Change on the Worlds’ Oceans, Gijon, Spain

May 19-23MSC Annual Surveillance Audit of Alaska Salmon, Anchorage 

June-December 2008

Jun 2.  NOAA's Sustainable Fisheries Leadership Awards, Washington, DC

Jun 2-10.  NPFMC, Kodiak

Jun 9.  ASMI board of Directors, Captain Cook, Anchorage Time/Agenda TBA

Jun 10-11.  Global Food Alaska, Soldotna 

Jul 29.  Comments due on proposed amendments to the commercial fishing industry vessel regulations 

Jul 29-30.  Electronic Fisheries Monitoring Workshop, Seattle   Agenda 

Aug 16-21.  American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, ON

Aug 22.  Agenda Change Request (ACR) deadline for BOF 2008/2009 Cycle

Sep 22-24.  NPFMC Plan Team Meeting

Sep 24-25.  North Pacific Research Board, Anchorage

Sep 29 - Oct 7.  NPFMC, Anchorage SHERATON

Oct 2-4.  Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition

Oct 8-10.  BOF Work Session, Anchorage

Oct 20-24.  5th World Fisheries Congress, Yokohama, Japan

Nov 17-21.  NPFMC Groundfish Plan Team Meeting

Nov 17-21.  North Pacific Anadromous Fishery Commission (NPAFC) Annual Meeting, Seattle

Nov 23-25.  NPAFC International Symposium on Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Surveys:  Climate Change, Production Trends, and Carrying Capacity of Pacific Salmon in the Bering Sea and Adjacent Waters, Seattle

Dec 1-6.  BOF Prince William Sound and Upper Copper/Upper Susitna Finfish and Dungeness Crab, Misc Shellfish, Cordova

Dec 8-16.  NPFMC, Anchorage Hilton 

Fish Calendar 2009

Jan 13-16.  IPHC, Vancouver BC 

Jan 18-27.  BOF Southeast and Yakutat Crab, Shrimp, Misc Shellfish, Petersburg

Jan 19 (week of)Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage

Feb 2-10NPFMC, Seattle

Feb 12-16American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago

Feb 16-20Alaska Forum on the Environment, Anchorage

Feb 17-26.  BOF Southeast and Yakutat Finfish (including salmon, herring, groundfish), Sitka

Feb 22-29.  36th Annual Pacific Seabird Group, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan 

Mar 16-20.  Statewide Dungeness Crab, Shrimp, Misc Shellfish (except Southeast, Yakutat, and PWS) and supplemental issues, Anchorage 

Mar 30-Apr 7NPFMC, Anchorage Hilton

Apr 29-30.  NPRB, Anchorage

May 11-134th International Fishing Industry  Safety & Health Conference, Reykjavik

Jun 1-9NPFMC, Dutch Harbor

Jun 10-11Global Food Alaska 2009, Soldotna

Aug 30 – Sep 3American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN

Sep 23-24NPRB, Anchorage