This assessment/review analyzes reduced maximum retainable bycatch percentages for shortraker and rougheye rockfish in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands area.
Analysis of a regulatory amendment that would require hook-and-line vessels fishing for Pacific halibut in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands and Gulf Of Alaska management areas to employ specified bird avoidance techniques to reduce seabird bycatch.
This assessment analyzes the effect of a proposed amendment to the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Plan that would transfer the management of black and blue rockfish to the State of Alaska.
This review/analysis evaluates a regulatory amendment providing standard allowances for ice and slime found on Pacific halibut and sablefish under the IFQ program.
The individual fishing quota (IFQ) program for the sablefish and halibut longline fisheries off Alaska was implemented in 1995. It culminated fourteen years of deliberations of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) on limited entry.
Analysis of Amendment 40, which would establish a prohibited species catch (PSC) limit for Chionoecetes opilio crab in a new C. opilio PSC Bycatch Limitation Zone of the Bering Sea.