NMFS Reapportions Chinook Salmon Catch Limits in Gulf of Alaska

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is reallocated 404 Chinook salmon prohibited species catch limit from vessels fishing for pollock in the Central Regulatory area to those in the Western Regulatory area, in order to allow for the 2017 pollock Total Allowable Catch (TAC) to be harvested, in line with the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska.