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C12 Habitat Areas of Particular Concern

These amendments revise the FMPs by identifying and describing essential fish habitat (EFH) and designating habitat areas of particular concern. They also include measures to minimize, to the extent practicable, adverse effects on EFH. This action is necessary to protect important habitat features to sustain managed fish stocks.

C16 Essential Fish Habitat

These amendments revise the FMPs by identifying and describing essential fish habitat (EFH) and designating habitat areas of particular concern. They also include measures to minimize, to the extent practicable, adverse effects on EFH. This action is necessary to protect important habitat features to sustain managed fish stocks.

C5 Establish License Limitation Program

This amendment, submitted by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council established the License Limitation Program (LLP). The LLP limits the number, size, and specific operation of vessels that may be deployed in the groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic zone off Alaska, except for demersal shelf rockfish east of 140 deg. W. long. and sablefish managed under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program.

C8 Essential Fish Habitat

(Amendments 55/ 55/8/5/5). These amendments describe and identify essential fish habitat (EFH) in Alaska, and risks to that habitat, for groundfish, scallops, salmon, and king and Tanner crabs.

C4 Vessel Moratorium

The purpose of Amendment 2 is to curtail increases in fishing capacity and provide stability for industry while the Council develops a long-term limited access system for this fishery. This action is necessary to promote the conservation and management objectives of the FMP.

C2 Establish Norton Sound superexclusive area registration

This amendment removed existing regulations that superseded State of Alaska regulations that established Norton Sound as a superexclusive registration area in the exclusive economic zone of the BSAI. This action was necessary for effective management of the fishery having the smallest biomass and guideline harvest level in the BSAI crab fisheries.

C1 Define Overfishing

This amendment defined overfishing as a fishing mortality rate in excess of Fmsy where the maximum allowable fishing mortality rate is estimated to equal the natural mortality rate (M) of mature male crab.

C3 Research Plan/Observer Program (not implemented)

These amendments incorporate the provisions of the North Pacific Fisheries Research Plan into each FMP to provide a standard application of the Research Plan and associated observer coverage throughout applicable fisheries.