NMFS Exchanges Flatfish Quotas to Allow Yellowfin Sole Harvest in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is exchanging unused flatfish quotas for yellowfin sole catch reserves in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area to enable the harvesting of the 2017 total allowable catch of yellowfin sole by the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Community Development Association (APICDA).