AKFIN staff will be in Juneau on the 13th of March, 2012 for an annual planning and development meeting on AKFIN Answers. This meeting is devoted to the fisheries stock assessment team at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute (TSMRI) and will focus on reviewing the past years performance as well as on planning and developing AKFIN Answers for the next stock assessment season.  This also provides an opportunity for progressive training on the use of AKFIN Answers, and is an excellent team building experience.

AKFIN has received revised 2006 and 2007 Alaska salmon subsistence data and has loaded these data to the CP_ADFG_SUB_SALMON table in the ADFG schema. The CP_ADFG_SUB_SALMON  table has Alaska salmon subsistence data by year and community from 1975 through 2008.

AKFIN updates several of its comprehensive tables on Friday of each week. The new data is one week old, meaning the delay between the time that the new data were created and the time that they appear in the AKFIN database is one week. Here is the list of comprehensive tables that are updated weekly:

• comprehensive_blend_ca,
• comprehensive_nontarget,
• comprehensive_norpac_haul,
• comprehensive_OBS,
• comprehensive_OBS_haul,
• comprehensive_PSC and
• comprehensive_WPR.

AKFIN’s database now has freshwater and saltwater data from the Alaska  Statewide Harvest Survey (SWHS). The freshwater SWHS data was recently added and includes years 2000 through 2010. These data were obtained from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Sport Fish Division, which conducts an annual mail survey to estimate total sport fishing effort and harvest by species.

AKFIN has obtained saltwater sport fish charter logbook data from ADF&G for years 2000 through 2010. These logbook data include information on charter boat guides and their clients as well as information on fishing effort and catch by species.

The S target has been renamed in the applicable Comprehensive Datasets from ‘Sablefish – BSAI’ to ‘Sablefish’