Parking Garage Update

Please plan accordingly before coming to the airport if you need parking. Currently ANC’s parking garage, long term parking lot, and the Park and Fly lot are full. The North Terminal lot is approximately half full. Both Diamond and Alaska Park have availability. ANC staff is diligently working to post appropriate signage to best direct traffic.

If you are coming to the airport to pick up loved ones, please use the cell phone lot until they are one the curb with their luggage and ready to load up. Parking/idling along the roadway leading up to passenger pick-up and drop off is not permitted. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Ted Stevens International Airport

Anchorage, AK

Halibut trawl bycatch, where millions of pounds of fish are dumped overboard

RE: Agenda Item – C2 BSAI Halibut abundance-based management (ABM) dated November 30th, 2021

Dear Chairman Kinneen and Members of the Council,

Never before have Alaskans from all regions come together to support council action to protect our fisheries and communities in this way. Alaska is famous for its bountiful resources and sustainable stewardship of abundant fisheries. We represent Alaskans across regions and communities of the state who have compelled us to strongly support Alternative 4 in the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Abundance-Based Management (ABM) of Halibut Bycatch action.

One of the most iconic and valuable of our resources – Pacific halibut – is facing a crisis that threatens the way of life for commercial, subsistence and sport halibut fishermen, and the economic driver for communities of coastal Alaska. Alternative 4 is the only choice that would provide meaningful benefit to the State’s halibut fisheries and halibut-dependent communities.

Meaningful abundance-based management creates badly needed conservation incentives. These incentives are lost entirely under the current non-constraining prohibited species catch (PSC) limits because the Amendment 80 fleet feels no effects at times of low abundance—and has no incentive to reduce halibut mortality or take steps to conserve halibut—because the impacts of low abundance are felt entirely on halibut commercial, subsistence and sport fishermen. Equitable management of halibut bycatch ultimately fulfills social and ecosystem priorities that impact our fishery for generations.

As a bipartisan group of state legislators, we ask the Council to uphold the principles of wise resource management and to protect the fisheries that benefit the people of Alaska. It is imperative the Council take steps to restore equity for Alaskans and Alaskan businesses in the harvest of these critical resources by implementing Alternative 4.

Representative Sarah Vance and 24 other State Legislators

Juneau, AK

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