Commercial Groundfish Fisheries
Cook Inlet Management Area
Fishery Advisory Announcements
- Cook Inlet Area 2025 State-Waters Pacific Cod Season Closes to Jig Gear and Opens to All Legal Gear Types (PDF 433 kB) - 12/23/25
- Cook Inlet Area Closes to Retention of Big Skate (PDF 251 kB) - 11/25/25
- Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Closes to Vessels Using Pot Gear (PDF 183 kB) - 10/3/25
- Cook Inlet Area Parallel Pacific Cod Season Opens to Vessels Using Longline Hook and Pot Gear (PDF 184 kB) - 8/29/25
Groundfish Outlook
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, 2019–2022 (PDF 4,034 kB)
- 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
Registrations
For information on ADF&G commissioners permit fishery registrations or tender registrations please contact the Homer ADF&G office at (907) 235-8191
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod Parallel Registration (PDF 264 kB)
- Cook Inlet Pacific Cod State Waters Registration (PDF 216 kB)
- Cook Inlet Pelagic Rockfish and Lingcod Registration (PDF 344 kB)
- Cook Inlet Sablefish Registration (PDF 335 kB)
To submit registrations online e-mail filled out and signed registration form to Nathan.McClenning@alaska.gov. Registrations are not valid until signed by ADF&G.
Logbooks
- Cook Inlet Pelagic Rockfish and Lingcod Logbook (PDF 148 kB)
- Central Region Sablefish Longline Logbook (PDF 107 kB)
- Central Region Sablefish Pot Logbook (PDF 294 kB)
Maps
Cook Inlet Districts
- Cook Inlet Area Groundfish Districts (PDF 2,677 kB)
- Cook Inlet Area Statistical Areas (PDF 2,862 kB)
- Cook Inlet Area Kachemak Bay Groundfish Pot Closed Waters (PDF 3,980 kB)