NMFS Closes Pollock Fishing in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to Prevent Bycatch Exceedance

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is closing directed fishing for pollock by trawl vessels using nonpelagic trawl gear in Zone 1 of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area, except for the red king crab savings subarea, to prevent exceeding the 1998 bycatch allowance for red king crab in the trawl pollock/Atka mackerel/other species fishery category.