Limited Access Management of Federal Fisheries In and Off of Alaska

Samenvatting

NMFS announces that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) has submitted Amendment 30 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (BSAI) and Amendment 34 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) for Secretarial review; comments are requested from the public. Amendment 30 would raise the sablefish Community Development Quota (CDQ) reserve allocation limit from 12 percent to 33 percent. This action is intended to allow total allocation of the sablefish CDQ reserve.