2025-2026 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
NOAA Fisheries announces final 2025 and 2026 harvest specifications, apportionments, and prohibited species catch allowances for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) and the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish during the remainder of the 2025 and the start of the 2026 fishing years and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP). The 2025 harvest specifications supersede those previously set in the final 2024 and 2025 harvest specifications, and the 2026 harvest specifications will be superseded in early 2026 when the final 2026 and 2027 harvest specifications are published. The intended effect of this action is to conserve and manage the groundfish resources in the BSAI and GOA in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act; MSA)
Federal Register
- Reallocation of Pollock in the BSAI (90 FR 14211, 03/31/2025)
- Reallocation of Pacific Cod in the BSAI (90 FR 13704, 03/26/2025
- Final Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (90FR12640, 03/18/2025)
- Final Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (90FR12468, 03/18/2025)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (89 FR 96186, 12/04/2024)
- Proposed Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (89 FR 94680, 11/29/2024)
Supporting Materials
- Apportionment of the Groundfish Reserves in the BSAI (1988–present) (PDF, 19 pa…
- 2025-2026 Groundfish Harvest Specification Tables
- Groundfish Harvest Specifications (all years)
- Information Bulletins
- TAC Changes and Further Catch Share Allocations
- Groundfish Harvest Specifications Analyses
- Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications EIS