Heather Mann

Council advisers back changes to help small Alaska towns fish their halibut and sablefish quota

Advisory panel asks scientists to test four more sablefish models before December

Bering Sea cod trawl fee drops to 2.09% after fishery value jumps

“What specific costs are we paying for? What enforcement activities were charged? How are these costs allocated?”

Bering Sea crab fee drops by half, but the itemization fight remains

“the AP motion is not anti-enforcement, it's not anti-management, and it's not an attempt to avoid paying legitimate costs.”

North Pacific council demands OLE justify enforcement fees billed to Alaska catch-share programs

“Cost recovery was never intended to be a mechanism for allocating general agency overhead or broad fisheries enforcement activities, like transferring through a rookery, for example, to a relatively small group of participants simply because they operate in a catch share”