This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers by the North Pacific Observer Program during 2019.
Alaska Region's data on salmon incidental catch in the Alaska groundfish fisheries, including stock of origin and coded wire tag (CWT) data for salmon. Report supplements the annual report on salmon incidental catch and salmon bycatch reduction measures.
This document is the first of a series of documents that describe the methods used to derive bycatch estimates for the numerous species (many listed as endangered or threatened) recorded being caught in Hawaii deep-set longline fishery.
Herring prohibited species catch (PSC) in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area pollock directed fishery is higher in 2020, relative to recent years. This increased PSC resulted in the pollock directed fishery exceeding its annual limit.
An Endangered Species Act Section 7 consultation on the operation of the Atlantic highly migratory species fisheries (excluding pelagic longline) under the Consolidated Atlantic HMS Fishery Management Plan.
Consultation under section 7 of the ESA for the effects of Pacific halibut fisheries in waters off Alaska on the short-tailed albatross and the Alaska-breeding population of the Steller’s eider and Spectacled Eider.