Catch Share Programs by Council Region

New England

• Atlantic Sea Scallops IFQ (2010)

• New England Multispecies Sectors (2010)

Mid-Atlantic

• Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog (1990)

• Golden Tilefish (2009)

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species

• Individual Bluefin Tuna Quota (2015)

South Atlantic

• Wreckfish (1991)

Caribbean

• No catch share programs

Gulf of Mexico

• Red Snapper (2007)

• Grouper and Tilefish (2010)

North Pacific/Alaska

• Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program (1992)

• Individual Fishing Quota  Halibut and Sablefish (1995)

• Bering Sea AFA Pollock Cooperative (1999)

• Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crab (2005)

• Aleutian Islands Pollock (2005)

• Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Groundfish (Non-Pollock) Cooperatives - Amendment 80 (2008)

• Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish (2011)

• Community Quota and License Programs and Community Quota Entities

Pacific

• Pacific Sablefish Permit Stacking (2001)

• West Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization (2011)

Western Pacific

• No catch share programs

Note: From 1996 to 2002, there was a congressional moratorium on the establishment of new IFQ programs.

In 2007, Congress reauthorized the Magnuson-Stevens Act, Section 303A with provisions for limited access privilege programs.