Amendment 33 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area

NOAA Fisheries issues a final rule that implements Amendment 33 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area and Amendment 37 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska. These amendments and this final implementing rule are necessary to allow fuller use of the fishery resources in and off of Alaska. This action is intended to allow persons authorized to harvest individual fishing quota sablefish to process species other than IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish.