NMFS Exchanges Flatfish Quotas to Allow Rock Sole Harvest in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is exchanging unused flathead sole Community Development Quota (CDQ) for rock sole CDQ acceptable biological catch (ABC) reserves in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area to allow the 2023 total allowable catch of rock sole in the area to be harvested.