Analysis to addresses six proposed actions to amend subsistence halibut regulations recommended by the State of Alaska, Federal agencies, or Alaska Native Tribes for consideration by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
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 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) evaluates the adverse economic impacts on directly regulated small entities of a regulatory amendment to exclude tagged halibut and tagged sablefish catches from deduction from fishermen’s Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) and from Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) accounts.
Environmental Assessment and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish harvest specifications for 2006-2007.
Analysis of the implementation of a cost recovery fee program for the Amendment 80 Program, the groundfish and halibut/sablefish Community Development Quota Program, the American Fisheries Act Program, and Aleutian Islands Pollock Program.
Analysis of an action to amend halibut Individual Fishing Quota and Community Development Quota regulations that define regulatory fishing areas for these programs under the authority of both NOAA Fisheries and International Pacific Halibut Commission.
Analysis of the costs and benefits of allowing processors receiving fish for the Prohibited Species Donation Program to convert processing byproducts (e.g., inedible heads and guts from salmon and Pacific halibut) into fish meal, oil, or bone meal.
Assessment of potential impacts of implementing a regulatory amendment for a guideline harvest level in the halibut charter fisheries in International Pacific Halibut Commission Areas 2C (Southeast Alaska) and 3A (Southcentral Alaska).
This document provides an analysis of several issues pertaining to the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program for fixed gear Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries and the Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program for fisheries in and off of Alaska.