NMFS Issues Regulations to Reduce Chinook Salmon Bycatch in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has implemented Amendment 58 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area, reducing the annual trawl bycatch limit for chinook salmon to conserve and manage this species.