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.
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.
In Section 802 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004, the U.S. Congress included a directive to the Secretary of Commerce to establish a pilot program for management of three rockfish fisheries in the Central Gulf of Alaska.
This document analyzes the effects of a regulatory amendment to require full retention of Demersal Shelf Rockfish (DSR) in the longline fisheries of the Southeast Outside District of the Gulf of Alaska.