Analysis of a regulatory amendment that would require hook-and-line vessels fishing for Pacific halibut in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands and Gulf Of Alaska management areas to employ specified bird avoidance techniques to reduce seabird bycatch.
This assessment analyzes the effect of a proposed amendment to the Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska Management Plan that would transfer the management of black and blue rockfish to the State of Alaska.
This review/analysis evaluates a regulatory amendment providing standard allowances for ice and slime found on Pacific halibut and sablefish under the IFQ program.
The individual fishing quota (IFQ) program for the sablefish and halibut longline fisheries off Alaska was implemented in 1995. It culminated fourteen years of deliberations of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) on limited entry.
Analysis of Amendment 40, which would establish a prohibited species catch (PSC) limit for Chionoecetes opilio crab in a new C. opilio PSC Bycatch Limitation Zone of the Bering Sea.
Twenty stations were sampled monthly along a primary marine migration corridor in the northern region of southeastern Alaska to assess the distribution, growth, mortality, and diet of wild and hatchery stocks of juvenile Pacific salmon.
This Environmental Assessment addresses an experimental fishing permit application by the Groundfish Forum to test the effects of an intermediate trawl escape panel on species and size composition of catch in trawls targeting flatfish.