This Regulatory Impact Review and Environmental Assessment analyzes proposed management measures that would apply exclusively to the Central Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Program.
Categorical Exclusion for requiring full retention of all rockfish caught by catcher vessels using hook-and-line, pot, or jig gear targeting groundfish and halibut in the GOA and BSAI.
This Regulatory Impact Review examines the benefits and costs of an emergency rule to increase the 2015 Chinook salmon prohibited species catch allocation to the Gulf of Alaska non-pollock, non-Rockfish Program trawl catcher vessel sector.
In 2005, the Council adopted a share-based management program, under which the total allowable catch of Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish is apportioned as exclusive share to cooperatives.
Analysis of the proposed amendment to remove dark rockfish from the Gulf of Alaska Groundfish Fishery Management Plan and from the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands Groundfish Fishery Management Plan.
Analysis of the potential impacts of issuing an exempted fishing permit to allow for the testing of an electronic monitoring system on trawl vessels fishing in the Central Gulf of Alaska rockfish fishery.