Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area

Samenvatting

NMFS implements a regulatory amendment to establish standard groundfish product types and standard product recovery rates (PRRs) for purposes of managing the groundfish fisheries off Alaska and specify certain product types and PRRs that may be used to calculate round- weight equivalents of pollock for purposes of calculating amounts of pollock roe that may be retained onboard a vessel during the pollock fishery. These actions are necessary to facilitate enforcement of existing regulatory measures and to implement a statutory prohibition against the wasteful use of pollock by stripping roe (eggs) from female pollock and discarding female and male pollock carcasses without further processing, commonly known as pollock roe stripping. The intended effect of this action is to promote the purposes and policies of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act).