Environmental Assessment of Amendment 3 Fishery Management Plan for the Scallop Fishery off Alaska
July 02, 1998
Amendment 3 delegates to the State of Alaska the authority to manage all aspects of the scallop fishery off Alaska except limited access.
The Scallop fishery off Alaska is currently managed under a cumbersome State-Federal management regime established by Amendment 1 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Scallop Fishery off Alaska, under which each State regulation and management action must be duplicated by a parallel Federal action. While this management regime has enabled NMFS to reopen Federal waters to fishing for scallops, it has proven to be cumbersome in practice.