Commercial Fisheries Entry Commision Public Permit Database from 1975-2016

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 includes permit information of all state commercial fisheries
between 1975 and 2016. Permit information includes fishery, permit type, permit holder name and address, dates of permit,
vessel identification, and information on transferable nature of individual permits. The source of this permit information
is various forms collected by CFEC including permit application, transfer requests, and address change forms. This dataset includes the public
permit database from CFEC, in addition to figures derived from this database showing new entrants by region. The included RMarkdown and two lookup tables are
used to generate these figures.