Exclusive economic zone

• Fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, August 19, 2011
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Groundfish Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska and Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Observer Program

NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 86 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI) and Amendment 76 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), (collectively referred to as the FMPs). If approved, Amendments 86 and 76 would add a funding and deployment system for observer coverage to the existing North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program (Observer Program) and amend existing observer coverage requirements for vessels and processing plants. The new funding and deployment system would allow NMFS to determine when and where to deploy observers according to management and conservation needs, with funds provided through a system of fees based on the ex- vessel value of groundfish and halibut in fish...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 23326, April 18, 2012
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, March 22, 2011
• Rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Amendment 88

NMFS issues regulations implementing Amendment 88 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA FMP). Amendment 88 is the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program). These regulations allocate exclusive harvest privileges to a specific group of license limitation program license holders who used trawl gear to target Pacific ocean perch, pelagic shelf rockfish, and northern rockfish during particular qualifying years. The Rockfish Program retains the conservation, management, safety, and economic gains realized under the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Pilot Program (Pilot Program) and resolves identified issues in the management and viability of the rockfish fisheries. This action is necessary to replace particular Pilot Program regulations tha...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 81248, December 27, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, July 26, 2011
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, November 04, 2011
• Rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area; Amendment 97

NMFS issues a proposed rule that would implement Amendment 97 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP). If approved, Amendment 97 would allow the owners of trawl catcher/processor vessels authorized to participate in the Amendment 80 catch share program to replace these vessels with vessels that meet certain requirements. This proposed action includes management measures that would establish the requirements for replacement vessels, such as a limit on the overall length of replacement vessels, measures to prevent replaced vessels from participating in Federal groundfish fisheries off Alaska that are not Amendment 80 fisheries, and specific catch limits known as Amendment 80 sideboards for replacement vessels. This action ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 20339, April 04, 2012
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, March 28, 2011
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Gulf of Alaska; Final 2012 and 2013 Harvest Specifications for Groundfish

NMFS announces final 2012 and 2013 harvest specifications, apportionments, and Pacific halibut prohibited species catch limits for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish during the 2012 and 2013 fishing years and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the GOA. The intended effect of this action is to conserve and manage the groundfish resources in the GOA in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 15194, March 14, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska:

• FR, August 10, 2011
• Proposed rules
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration