Support staff consists of five civilians employed as full time FWP Aides, Boat Officer, and Administrative Clerk. Seven part time aides are employed during the busy summer months when the most resource users are participating. Equipment items consist of three sixty five foot, four twenty five to twenty six foot, and nine boats twenty feet or less. Two float equipped fixed wings, three snowmobiles, four ATV s and nineteen highway vehicles. This is only a landmass quotient as there are numerous square miles of marine patrols conducted.
Marine patrols are the primary means of patrol in Southeast.
It is estimated that there are 4,000 miles of roadway situated throughout southeast and this also constitutes a large portion of our patrol activities. This Detachment has enforcement responsibility for Commercial Fisheries in Salmon, Herring, Crab, and Groundfish in areas that contain some of the nation's richest fisheries, such as the Bering Sea Crab fisheries and Bristol Bay Red Salmon, and in areas that can produce some of the world's most severe weather. This area also attracts sportfishers angling for trophy size fish, and hunters after world class Brown Bear, Moose, Sheep, and Caribou. There are six fixed wing aircraft and one helicopter stationed in the Detachment. D Detachment covers the northern interior part of Alaska.