An exempted fishing permit is a permit issued by the Alaska Region to allow fishing activities that would otherwise be prohibited under federal regulations. These permits are issued for limited experimental purposes to support certain projects.
Catch and landings reports for federal fisheries off Alaska include daily updates for crab, IFQ halibut and sablefish fisheries, Cook Inlet salmon, and weekly updates for groundfish fisheries and prohibited species catch limit for groundfish fisheries.
Fishery program reports on data transfers, quota shares, allocations, cooperatives, cost recovery, arbitration, crab seasons and TAC, ex-vessel value and volume prices, program development, and annual reports.
The Inseason Management Branch monitors the catch rates of groundfish and prohibited species according to the catch limits and allocations by gear, sector, and seasonal apportionments in the 2026-2027 harvest specifications.
The Alaska Region annually publishes groundfish harvest specifications of the annual catch limits for the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands in the Federal Register to conserve and manage the groundfish resources in the Alaska Region.
The Final EIS provides an evaluation of the environmental, social, and economic effects of alternative harvest strategies for the groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Over half of all federally managed fishery resources in the US are harvested from waters off Alaska. NOAA Fisheries partners with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the State of Alaska, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, and others.