Fishing & Seafood Permits

Amendment 80 applications and permits including the Cooperative Quota Permit application, Flatfish Exchange Application, Inter-Cooperative Transfer of Cooperative Quota, Vessel Replacement application, and Limited Access Fishery Permit application.

Applications and forms for chinook salmon bycatch for the pollock and non-pollock trawl fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI).

Applications and forms for the Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program including the Application for the Use of Non-CDQ Harvest Regulations, Prohibited Species Quota (PSQ) Transfer Request, CDQ Flatfish Exchange, Chinook Salmon Bycatch Applications and Forms, IFQ/CDQ Hired Master Permit Application, CDQ Vessel Registration, Prior Notice of Landing report, Landing Report, and Cost Recovery Fee Payment.

Applications for Alaska Community Quota Entities including applications for a CQE to Receive a Non-trawl Groundfish LLP License, Become An Eligible Crab Community Organization (ECCO), CQE Community Charter Halibut Permit, CQE Transfer of IFQ to an Eligible Community Resident or Non-Resident, Non-Profit Designation as CQE, Transfer of Crab QS/IFQ to or from a ECCO, and CQE Transfer (Lease) between IFQ and GAF.

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region issues exempted fishing permits to allow groundfish fishing activities for limited experimental purposes to support projects that could benefit the groundfish fisheries and the environment.

Alaska Federal Fisheries Permit application for U.S. vessels used to fish for groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and vessels used to fish for any non-groundfish species and that are required to retain bycatch of groundfish. Federal Processor Permit application for Alaska stationary floating processors and shoreside processors that process groundfish.

Applications and forms for the Pacific halibut and sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program in Alaska including Non-Profit Corporation to be Designated as a Recreational Quota Entity (RQE), CDQ Flatfish Exchange application, Cost Recovery Fee Payment, Eligibility to Receive QS/IFQ, CDQ and Prohibited Species Quota (PSQ) Transfer Request, Registered Buyer Permit, Sablefish Longline Pot Gear: Vessel Registration and Request for Pot Gear Tags, Medical Transfer, Hired Master, Transfer (Lease) Between Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) and Guided Angler Fish (GAF) form, Transfer of Quota Share to or from a Recreational Quota Entity (RQE) form, Registered Buyer Ex-Vessel Volume and Value Report, and Landing Report.

A Federal License Limitation Program (LLP) license is required for vessels participating in directed fishing for LLP groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), or fishing in any BSAI LLP crab fisheries.

NOAA Fisheries certified observers collect data on Alaska groundfish and halibut fisheries to provide scientific information to which is used to manage Alaska's fisheries and develop measures to minimize bycatch.

Prohibited Species Donation permits authorize tax-exempt organizations to distribute salmon and/or halibut (delivered by catcher vessels using trawl gear to shoreside processors) to hunger relief agencies, food bank networks, or food bank distributors.