The 2019 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 2019.
Program Summary: The western Alaska Community Development Quota Program (CDQ Program) provides western Alaska villages with the opportunity to participate and invest in fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries.
This draft 2019 Annual Deployment Plan (ADP) documents how the NOAA Fisheries intends to assign at-sea and shoreside observers and electronic monitoring to vessels and processing plants engaged in fishing operations in the North Pacific.
Examination of proposed changes to the management of the Pacific halibut charter fisheries and commercial halibut setline fisheries in International Pacific Halibut Commission regulatory Areas 2C and 3A in the Gulf of Alaska.
This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers by the North Pacific Observer Program (Observer Program) during 2017.
Technical Memo describing and analyzing the evolution of the Alaska region Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) fisheries over the past 125 years. NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-F/AKR -17.
Analysis of a regulatory amendment to allow Community Development Quota groups to lease Area 4B, 4C, and 4D halibut Individual Fishing Quota from quota shareholders in times of low halibut catch limits in Area 4B and Area 4CDE.