Notices and Rules
Implementation of the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
Final regulations to implement an amendment to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Gulf of Alaska Groundfish establishing an optimum yield (OY), domestic annual harvest (DAH), and total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF) for fishes of the…
Effective
09/12/1979
Amendment 6 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
Amendment 6 to the fishery management plan for the Gulf of Alaska Groundfish fishery, submitted by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, is approved. This amendment lowers the estimates of domestic annual harvest and commensurately increases the…
Published
08/09/1979
Amendment 5 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
An amendment to the FMP for Gulf of Alaska Groundfish is approved. This amendment establishes an optimum yield, domestic annual harvest, and total allowable level of foreign fishing for fish of the genus Coryphaenoides. Revised regulations to implement…
Published
07/20/1979
Amendment 4 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
GOA Amendment 4, contains 11 subparts, corrects omissions in the original plan eliminates superfluous management measures, and eases the burden of the measures on both domestic and foreign fisherman. GOA 4: modify regulatory areas; modify fishing…
Published
07/09/1979
Implementation of the Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries Off Alaska
On May 18, 1979, NOAA Fisheries published interim emergency regulations implementing the approved portion of the Fishery Management Plan for the Alaska Salmon Fishery. Due to an inadvertence, the FMP was not published at that time. The FMP is set forth…
Published
06/08/1979
Foreign Fishing Activities in the U.S.
These regulations govern foreign fishing activities within the United States fishery conservation zone (FCZ). These regulation are similar in most respects to regulations which governed foreign fishing activities in the FCZ during 1978. Experience…
Effective
01/01/1979
Amendment 3 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
The GOA amendment 3 proposed rule permits foreign longline fishermen to take the entire Chirikof TALFF (and any allocated reserves) for Pacific cod in that portion of the Chirikof subarea west of 157° W. longitude. Comment period through November 20,…
Published
10/13/1978
Amendment 2 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
Amendment 2 raises the pollock reserve to 133,800 metric tons, with appropriate increases in the reserves of species that will be taken incidental to a directed fishery for pollock, in order to assure that an adequate supply of fish is available for…
Published
10/06/1978
Amendment 1 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Area
This document is intended to accomplish two purposes. First, it amends the fishery management plan for the Gulf of Alaska Groundfish Fishery by extending the established optimum yields, statement of U.S. capacity, and total allowable level of foreign…
Published
08/07/1978
Fishery Management Plan for the Trawl Fisheries and Herring Gillnet Fishery of the Eastern Bering Sea and Northeast Pacific
Preliminary Fishery Management Plan for trawl fisheries and herring gillnet fishery of the Eastern Bering Sea and Northeast Pacific. The Secretary of Commerce published a Notice of Determination, Preparation, Issuance, and Implementation of Preliminary…
Published
09/06/1977