Environmental Assessment of Amendment 40 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area
October 02, 1997
Management of Snow Crab (C.opilio) Bycatch Limits in Bering Sea Groundfish Trawl Fisheries
Amendment 40 will establish a prohibited species catch limit for Chionoecetes opilio crab in a new Q. opilio PSC Bycatch Limitation Zone of the Bering Sea. The PSC would be established annually to fluctuate with crab abundance, within the minimum and maximum limits, as a percentage of the NOAA Fisheries bottom trawl survey index.