Regulatory Impact Review/Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of a Regulatory Amendment to Facilitate Online Transfers of Quota for the Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska
July 01, 2009
This document is a Regulatory Impact Review and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of an action to revise regulations at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680 amending the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Pilot Program, the Amendment 80 Program, the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program, and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program.
This document is a Regulatory Impact Review and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of an action to revise regulations at 50 CFR parts 679 and 680 amending the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Pilot Program, the Amendment 80 Program, the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program, and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program. NMFS proposes regulations to provide cooperatives and CDQ groups with an option to accomplish inter-cooperative transfers and crab individual processing quota transfers through automated, online submittals.