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This document analyzes several management measures that would apply to fishery participants in the Pacific cod trawl catcher vessel fishery off of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

Regulatory Impact Review/Environmental Assessment for amendment 122 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.

Draft Regulatory Impact Review/Environmental Assessment for Proposed Amendment 122 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.

Finding of no significant impact of Amendment 122 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.

Analysis of an amendment to prohibit Federally-permitted hook-and-line, pot, and trawl gear vessels from participating in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island Pacific cod parallel fisheries unless they meet LLP and FFP requirements.

Analysis of modifications to allocations of pollock and cod to allow fisheries to more fully harvest TAC and potentially decrease prohibited species catch. The modifications would not re-distribute allocations between management areas or harvest sectors.

Limits to the amount of BSAI non-CDQ Pacific cod that can be delivered to certain catcher/processors by trawl catcher vessels.

The eastern Bering Sea was characterized by anomalously warm conditions in 2018. Over the northern shelf, an unprecedented near-complete lack of sea ice occurred; the southeastern shelf had no sea ice and no cold pool (footprint of winter sea ice persisting as cold bottom water the following summer, less than

This Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) provides an analysis of a final regulatory amendment. Approval of the regulatory amendment would impose a two-week ban on trawl, hook-and line and pot fishing in the specified area near Unimak Pass in the eastern Bering Sea. This short-term closure would be in effect between March 15 and March 31 in the years 2003 - 2006. The changes in fishing regulations are needed to permit NMFS to conduct unimpeded experiments on the effects of commercial trawling on local abundance of Pacific cod, as part of a comprehensive research program on sea lion/fishery interactions. The FRFA provides an analysis of the expected impacts of proposed action on small entities.

This documentation contains Salmon, Cods, and Skates identification information to assist North Pacific Observers while in the field.