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SAL 7 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.

SAL 8 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.

SAL 6 Revise Definitions of Overfishing

Amendment 6 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries is necessary to implement overfishing definitions for the salmon fishery authorized under the salmon FMP. This action is intended to ensure that conservation and management measures continue to be based on the best scientific information available and to advance the Council's ability to achieve, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from fisheries under its jurisdiction.

SAL 5 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.

SAL1

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has adopted, and the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with one exception, has approved certain amendments to the fishery management plan (FMP) for the High Seas Salmon Fishery off the Coast of Alaska. These amendments would make several changes to conform the FMP and implementing regulations to State of Alaska regulations so there is a degree of uniformity inside the three-mile territorial sea and in the fishery conservation zone outside the territorial sea. Changes in the implementing regulations are proposed.

SAL2

These regulations reduce the Southeast Alaska catch of Chinook salmon, facilitate data collection, distribute the burden of conservation more equitably between hand trollers and power trollers, and coordinate Federal regulations with State of Alaska salmon regulations. Amendment No. 2 and these regulations will contribute to the rebuilding of Chinook salmon stocks, increase salmon production, and provide long-term positive net economic benefits to the Southeast Alaska and other Pacific Coast salmon fisheries.

SAL3

Amendment 3 is intended to improve regulation of the salmon fisheries in Alaska’s waters and in the EEZ off the coast of Alaska.

SAL4 Overfishing Definition

This fourth amendment of the salmon plan provides a definition of overfishing as required by NOAA regulations at 50 CPR 602.