The Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative Program assigns quota share to License Limitation Program licenses for Pacific cod based on legal landings associated with that License Limitation Program.
The Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative Program allocates harvest quota to qualifying groundfish License Limitation Program license holders and qualifying processors with a history of Pacific cod legal landings.
Recent updates to the Distribution Mapping and Analysis Portal (DisMAP) include additional years of data, new filtering features, and data from a new region—the Northern Bering Sea.
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.
Pacific cod is a transoceanic species, occurring at depths from shoreline to 500 m. The southern limit of the species’ distribution is about 34° N latitude, with a northern limit of about 63° N latitude.
Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) is a transoceanic species, ranging from California, northward along the North American coast; across the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea north to Norton Sound; and southward along the Asian coast to the northern Yellow Sea.
Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) ranges across the northern Pacific Ocean from California, northward to the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering Sea north to Norton Sound; and southward along the Asian coast to the northern Yellow Sea.
Regulatory Impact Review/Environmental Assessment for amendment 122 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.