The Sustainable Fisheries Division of NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region is reinitiating consultation for the effects of Alaska groundfish fisheries on short-tailed albatross and the Alaska-breeding population of the Steller’s eider.
This Regulatory Impact Review examines the benefits and costs of an emergency rule to increase the 2015 Chinook salmon prohibited species catch allocation to the Gulf of Alaska non-pollock, non-Rockfish Program trawl catcher vessel sector.
Final Analysis for Amendments 108, 100, and 46 to multiple fishery management plans correcting vessel length exemptions to the License Limitation Program.
Regulatory Impact Review prepared to evaluate the economic and socioeconomic effects of a proposed Federal regulatory amendment to the Gulf of Alaska Community Quota Entity Program.
This document contains an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) for the groundfish harvest specifications in the Gulf of Alaska for the years 2015 and 2016.
This assessment/review analyzes the impact of including grenadiers in the Alaska groundfish fishery management plans as either "in the fishery" or an "ecosystem component."
Analysis of a proposed action to enable Amendment 80 cooperatives and Western Alaska Community Development Quota groups to exchange quota share of 1 or 2 groundfish species for an equivalent amount of the acceptable biological catch of 1 of the others.
Analysis of the impacts of four alternatives to close specific areas of the Central Gulf of Alaska Regulatory Area to the use of trawl gear and pot gear or as a suboption, in lieu of a closure to require additional observer coverage in these areas.