Notices and Rules
2025 Pacific Halibut Recreational Fishery
Management measures for the 2025 recreational fisheries and updates to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for regulatory Area 2A
Published
12/26/2024
Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska; Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection
Published
10/31/2024
Court-ordered Changes to Pacific Coast Treaty Indian Tribe’s Usual and Accustomed Fishing Areas
Updated boundaries for the Hoh Indian Tribe U&A fishing areas off the Washington coast
Published
07/23/2024
2024 West Coast Pacific Halibut Directed Commercial Fishery
2024 Pacific halibut annual management measures for the Area 2A directed commercial fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California
Published
05/10/2024
2024 Pacific Halibut Recreational Fishery
Management measures for the 2024 recreational fisheries and updates to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for regulatory Area 2A
- Inseason adjustment; request for comments (89 FR 77033, September 20, 2024)
- Inseason adjustment; request for comments (89 FR 59673, July 23, 2024)
- Inseason adjustment, request for comments (89 FR 53361, June 26, 2024)
- Final rule; correction (89 FR 46824, May 30, 2024)
- Final Rule (89 FR 22966, April 3, 2024)
Effective
04/04/2024
Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan and Annual Management Measures - Federal Register Rules and Notices
2020 annual management measures governing the Pacific halibut fishery that have been recommended by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) and accepted by the Secretary of State.
- Final Rule: 2024 Annual Management Measures (89 FR 19275, 03/18/2024)
- Final Rule: 2023 Annual Management Measures (88 FR 14066, 03/07/2023)
- Final Rule: 2022 Annual Management Measures (87 FR 12604, 03/07/2022)
- Final Rule: 2021 Annual Management Measures (86 FR 13475, 03/09/2021)
- Final Rule: Revised 2020 Annual Management Measures (85 37023, 06/19/2020)
Effective
03/09/2024
Federal Register Notices of Proposed and/or Continuing Information Collections as Required by the Paperwork Reduction Act
Public comment periods for proposed new or extensions of existing collections of information in the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
- Individual Fishing Quotas for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish in the Alaska Fishe…
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Managemen…
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Managemen…
- Alaska Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Charter Extension (88 FR 66817, 9/28/2023)
- NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System Program Extension (88 FR 66816, 9/2…
Published
09/19/2023
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program in Alaska Federal Register Rules and Notices 2004–Present
The commercial halibut and sablefish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) management areas are managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program that was implemented in 1995.
- Final Rule: Modify the 2023-2027 Halibut IFQ (88 FR 48137, 07/26/2023)
- Proposed Rule: Modify the 2023-2027 Halibut IFQ (88 FR 30272, 05/11/2023)
- Temporary Final Rule: Vessel Use Caps (87 FR 34215, 06/06/2022)
- Proposed Rule: Vessel Use Caps (87 FR 23155, 04/19/2022)
- Final Rule: Sablefish Pot Gear Tags and Notary Certification Requirements (86 F…
Published
07/26/2023
2023 Pacific Halibut Directed Commercial Fishery
2023 Pacific halibut annual management measures for the Area 2A non-tribal directed commercial fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California.
Effective
07/24/2023
Alaska Prohibited Species Donation Program: Federal Register Rules and Notices
Section 679.26 authorizes the voluntary distribution of salmon and halibut taken incidentally in the groundfish trawl fisheries off Alaska to economically disadvantaged individuals by tax-exempt organizations through an authorized distributor.
Published
05/18/2023