This report summarizes the comments received during the December 26, 2007, to February 15, 2008, scoping period for the Bering Sea Salmon Bycatch Management Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
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.
Analysis of the potential impacts of issuing an exempted fishing permit (EFP) to allow for the testing of a halibut excluder device on trawl vessels in the Central Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Pacific cod fishery.
This assessment/review analyzes reduced maximum retainable bycatch percentages for shortraker and rougheye rockfish in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands area.