Several more Bristol Bay fishermen cited

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Nushagak Bay

Type: Commercial fish closed period

On 6/26/21 Taylor Kirkman, 35, from Charleston, S.C., was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Nushagak District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed waters

On 6/29/21 Kieran Barr, 53, from Seattle, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District.

Location: Nushagak Bay

Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/30/21 Elijah Lawson, 49, from Seattle, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Nushagak District.

Location: Egegik District
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/30/21 Alexander Lounsbury, 28, from Kodiak, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed period

On 7/2/21 Connor Aakervik, 28, from Seattle, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Location: Nushagak Bay

Type: Commercial fish closed waters

On 7/2/21 Iosif Kuzmin, 35, from Oregon, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Nushagak District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 7/3/21 Giuseppe Costa, 73, from Monterey, Calif., was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Two more cited at Egegik

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik District
Type: Commercial fish closed period

On 6/22/21 Gordon Pitzman, 51, from Homer, and Jacob Ruwitch, 24, from Fort Collins, Colo., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Multiple fishermen cited in Egegik District

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed waters

On 6/22/21 Timothy Vardy, 66, and Linda Sue Vardy, 58, both from Stanwood, Wash., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed waters

On 6/25/21 Austin Alder, 38, from Soldotna, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed waters

On 6/26/21 Joseph Masui, 32, from Homer, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/27/21 Matthew Rockness, 45, and David Holmen, 17, both from Gig Harbor, Wash., along with Tor Rockness, 46, from Portland, Ore., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed period

On 6/27/21 Clayton Robison, 42, from Borup, Minn., and Russell Tolsma, 61, from Ferndale, Wash., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Location: Egegik District

Type: Commercial fish closed period

On 6/28/21 Keith Bell, 32, from Anchorage, and Brett Pfautz, 31, from Bozeman, Mont., were cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in a closed period in the Egegik District.

Halibut fisherman arrested at Naknek

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Naknek

Type: Warrant arrest

On 6/12/21 at approximately 0946 hours, Alaska Wildlife Troopers based in King Salmon contacted Dan Pauk, 62, of Manokotak, during a commercial halibut delivery in Naknek. Pauk had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on the original charge of seasons and bag limits for moose issued through the Dillingham court. Pauk was arrested and remanded for the warrant with bail set at $150 cash.

Sablefish, halibut fisherman hit with $78K penalty

This federal report to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council includes this enforcement action, among others:

F/V Anita — Owner F/V Anita LLC and operator Jay Gillman were charged jointly and severally under the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the Northern Pacific Halibut Act with unlawfully discarding IFQ sablefish and IFQ halibut, failing to report discards, failing to retrieve gear in a timely manner, and failing to register an IFQ fishing trip in the Observer Deploy and Declare System. A $78,250 notice of violation and assessment was issued.

Three Copper River fishermen cited

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Copper River flats
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 5/24/21 Alaska Wildlife Troopers observed and subsequently contacted the F/V Zephyr for fishing in closed waters. Investigation revealed the vessel was commercial fishing with a drift gillnet in closed waters, outside of the Copper River District. The operator and permit holder, Jennifer Nakao, 36, of Seward, was issued a citation for commercial fishing in closed waters.

Location: Copper River flats
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 5/24/21 Alaska Wildlife Troopers observed and subsequently contacted the F/V Sewak for fishing in closed waters. Investigation revealed the vessel was commercial fishing with a drift gillnet in closed waters, outside of the Copper River District and inside regulatory closed waters. The operator and permit holder, Matthew Adams, 27, of Cordova, was issued a citation for commercial fishing in closed waters.

Location: Copper River flats
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 5/24/21 Alaska Wildlife Troopers observed and subsequently contacted the F/V Julia Rose for fishing in closed waters. Investigation revealed the vessel was commercial fishing with a drift gillnet in closed waters, outside of the Copper River District and inside regulatory closed waters. The operator and permit holder, Nathan Widmann, 28, of Cordova, was issued a citation for commercial fishing in closed waters.

Man arrested at Naknek on warrant

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Naknek

Type: Warrant arrest

On 5/24/21 King Salmon-based Alaska Wildlife Troopers arrested 34-year-old Christopher Mitchell, of Washington, for an outstanding warrant at the borough dock. Mitchell's original offense was commercial fish closed period. Mitchell was remanded to the Bristol Bay Borough PD jail.