| Summary: | The Commercial Fisheries Entry Commision (CFEC) is an independent, autonomous agency of the State of Alaska which regulates entry into Alaska's commercial fisheries. The CFEC is committed to promoting conservation and sustained-yield management of Alaska's unique fishery resources and boosting economic stability among fishermen and their dependents. To ensure effective management of commercial fisheries, all vessels used for commercial fishing or related activities must be licensed by the CFEC. This includes fishing vessels, tenders, packers, processors, transporter vessels, and seine skiffs. The CFEC is responsible for leasing all commercial fishing permits including permits for limited-entry fisheries. Limited-entry fisheries include all state salmon fisheries, most herring fisheries, and various other fisheries. This dataset represents the number of salmon fishery permits that were renewed - specifically, number of permit holders by community of residence. This dataset includes all permits, limited entry and interim, for Alaska residents. Non-residents that renewed their permit with an out-of-state address are not included. The source of this permit information is various forms collected by CFEC including permit application, transfer requests, and address change forms. This dataset also includes a set of maps showing the percent change in permits from the number of initial issues. These maps were created using the included R markdown document in conjunction with code from Jeanette Clark, Rachel Carlson, and Jared Kibele. General mapping functions for data associated with the State of Alaska's Salmon and People (SASAP) project, 2019. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. doi:10.5063/F1MP51JD. Also included are a set of figures displaying time-series information of permit holdings at a regional level.
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