North Pacific Fishery Management Council Submits Amendment 82 for Aleutian Islands Directed Pollock Fishery

Summary

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has submitted Amendment 82 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area, which would establish a framework for managing the Aleutian Islands subarea directed pollock fishery and allocate it to the Aleut Corporation for economic development of Adak, Alaska, in compliance with the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004 and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.