Walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) are distributed throughout the Aleutian Islands with concentrations in areas and depths dependent on diel and seasonal migration.
Pacific ocean perch 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 species.
The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands other flatfish complex has typically included those flatfish besides northern rock sole, yellowfin sole, arrowtooth flounder, Kamchatka flounder and Greenland turbot.
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.
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.
Northern rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra n. sp.) are distributed primarily on the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf and in much lesser amounts in the Aleutian Islands region. Two species of rock sole are known to occur in the North Pacific Ocean.
A report on the status of forage species in the Gulf of Alaska region is prepared on a biennial basis and presented to the GOA Plan Team and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in even years.
Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) report summarizes the best available scientific information concerning past, present, and possible future condition of the stocks, marine ecosystems, and fisheries that are managed under Federal regulation.
This is a three species stock assessment for walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus), Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias), from the Eastern Bering Sea, Alaska.
Kamchatka flounder is a relatively large flatfish which is distributed from Northern Japan through the Sea of Okhotsk to the Western Bering Sea north to Anadyr Gulf and east to the eastern Bering Sea shelf and south of the Alaska Peninsula.