The National Standard Guidelines for Fishery Management Plans published by NOAA Fisheries require that a stock assessment and fishery evaluation (SAFE) report be prepared and reviewed annually for each fishery management...
Through 2010, octopuses were managed as part of the BSAI “other species” complex, along with sharks, skates, and sculpins. Historically, catches of the other species complex were well below TAC and retention of other species was small.
The shark complex (Pacific sleeper shark, spiny dogfish, salmon shark, and other/unidentified sharks) in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) is assessed on a biennial stock assessment schedule. In even years we present a full stock assessment...
The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) skate complex is managed in aggregate, with a single set of harvest specifications applied to the entire complex. However, to generate the harvest recommendations the stock is divided into two units.
Native Names: In the Aleut languages, Atka mackerel are known as tmadgi among the Eastern and Atkan Aleuts and Atkan of Bering Island. They are also known as tavyi among the Attuan Aleuts (Sepez et al. 2003).
The Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Other Rockfish complex is currently managed in Tier 5 and is assessed on even years to coincide with the Aleutian Islands (AI) groundfish trawl survey.
Shortraker rockfish (Sebastes borealis) are distributed along the continental slope in the north Pacific from Point Conception in southern California to Japan, and are commonly found between eastern Kamchatka and British Columbia (Love et al. 2002).
Fish previously referred to as rougheye rockfish are now recognized as consisting of two species, rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) and blackspotted rockfish (Sebastes melanostictus) (Orr and Hawkins 2008). Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands...
In 2005, Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) rockfish were moved to a biennial assessment schedule with full assessments in even years to coincide with the frequency of trawl surveys in the Aleutian Islands (AI) and the eastern Bering Sea (EBS) slope.
Pacific ocean perch (POP, Sebastes alutus) inhabit the outer continental shelf and upper slope regions of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Pacific ocean perch were occasionally managed within a species complex with four other associated rockfish...