Analysis of management measures to authorize the retention of legal-size halibut in pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, provided the operator holds sufficient halibut IFQ or CDQ for that IFQ regulatory area.
Analysis of proposed management measures that would apply exclusively to the guided recreational (charter) sector fishing for Pacific halibut in International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) regulatory Area 2C and 3A.
This draft 2020 Annual Deployment Plan documents how NOAA Fisheries intends to assign fishery observers and electronic monitoring to vessels fishing in the partial observer coverage category (50 CFR 679.51(a)) in the North Pacific during the calendar year 2020.
Analysis of a regulatory action prohibiting the mixing of guided and unguided halibut simultaneously on any fishing vessel in International Pacific Halibut Commission Areas 2C and 3A in Alaska.
This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers by the North Pacific Observer Program during 2018.
Analysis of a regulatory amendment to allow halibut to be sorted on the deck of trawl catcher/processors (CPs) and motherships when operating in non-pollock groundfish fisheries off Alaska.
User guides for eFISH, a public web application which provides information and services to harvesters and processors in: IFQ, Crab Rationalization, CDQ Groundfish, GOA Rockfish, A80 and AFA.
The Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 at 16 U.S.C. 773c provides that the Secretary of Commerce shall have general responsibility to carry out the Halibut Convention between the United States and Canada and that the Secretary shall adopt such....