Alaska's coastline represents 40% of the US total and provides endless recreational fishing opportunities. The State of Alaska manages most of Alaska's recreational fisheries. NOAA Fisheries manages Pacific halibut recreational fisheries in Alaska.
Fishery program reports on data transfers, quota shares, allocations, cooperatives, cost recovery, arbitration, crab seasons and TAC, ex-vessel value and volume prices, program development, and annual reports.
Over half of all federally managed fishery resources in the US are harvested from waters off Alaska. NOAA Fisheries partners with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the State of Alaska, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, and others.
The License Limitation Program is for commercial groundfish fisheries within the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (BSAI), commercial crab fisheries in the BSAI, and commercial scallop fisheries in the BSAI and GOA.
A Scallop License Limitation Program (SSLP) license is required on any scallop vessel in federal waters off Alaska (except for some diving operations). The SLLP is intended to limit the number of participants in the scallop fishery.
A Federal License Limitation Program (LLP) license is required for vessels participating in directed fishing for LLP groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), or fishing in any BSAI LLP crab fisheries.
The primary Atlantic sea scallop fishery operates along the Atlantic coast from the Mid-Atlantic to the US/Canada border. The scallop fishery uses predominantly paired or single scallop dredges throughout the entire range of the fishery. To a lesser…