NMFS Closes Pacific Cod Fishery in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to Prevent Overfishing

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has closed directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels using trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area to prevent exceeding the 1999 halibut bycatch mortality allowance for the trawl Pacific cod fishery category.