NOAA Fisheries is reallocating the projected unused amounts of the Aleut Corporation's pollock directed fishing allowance and the Community Development Quota pollock from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea directed fisheries. These actions are necessary to provide opportunity for harvest of the 2011 total allowable catch of pollock, consistent with the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.
The changes to Table 3 of the final 2010 and 2011 harvest specifications for groundfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (75 FR 11778, March 12, 2010) and inseason adjustments can be found at:
Detailed information on those requirements is available here.
Fishermen are reminded that all actions and closures remain in full force and effect. This reallocation does not rescind or modify closures to directed fishing or actions prohibiting retention of a groundfish species.
This information bulletin only provides notice of a regulatory change. For the purposes of complying with the regulatory change, you are advised to see the actual text of the regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations.
IB 11-10: Reallocation of Pollock in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
January 28, 2011 - 1:30 p.m.
Notice of a fishery management action.
