Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish Reserves in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area
Key claim: Federal fisheries managers are moving unused reserve quota into the catch limits for Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and other flatfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands so those commercial fisheries can keep fishing.
Abstract
(Rule · Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) NMFS apportions amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch (ITAC) of Bering Sea (BS) Pacific ocean perch, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) northern rockfish, and BSAI “other flatfish.” This action is necessary to allow the fisheries to continue operating. It is intended to promote the goals and objectives of the fishery management plan for the BSAI management area.
Why this matters
Federal fisheries managers are moving unused reserve quota into the catch limits for Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and other flatfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands so those commercial fisheries can keep fishing.