Yakutat observer manual. The Marine Mammal Protection Act gives NOAA Fisheries the authority to place observers aboard commercial fishing vessels to collect data for the purposes of assessing the impacts of commercial fisheries on marine mammals.
Analysis of the potential impacts of a regulatory amendment. This amendment would require upgrades to data processing and communications technology on groundfish catcher vessels, catcher/processors, motherships, and on-shore processors.
Manual for Kodiak set gillnet fishery observers. The Alaska Marine Mammal Observer Program operates to obtain the necessary data needed to classify fisheries and otherwise manage marine mammal interactions.
Analysis of the impacts of an amendment to require increased functionality for hardware and software designed to facilitate groundfish fishery observer reporting from catcher-processors, motherships, and shoreside processors in the BSAI and GOA.
This document analyzes the alternatives considered for Amendment 86 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area and Amendment 76 to the Fishery Management Plan for Gorundfish of the Gulf of Alaska.