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G15 Revise FMP Policy, Kodiak Bottom Trawl Closures, Optimum Yield and TAC/PSC Catch Framework, C/P Reporting Requirements

The amendment revised the management goals and objectives and established a single optimum yield range and a procedure for setting annual harvest levels for each species category of groundfish.

G33 Kodiak Pelagic Trawl Closures (Withdrawn)

S3

Scallop amendment 3 delegates to the State of Alaska the authority to manage all aspects of the scallop fishery, except limited access. This final rule repeals all Federal regulations governing the scallop fishery off Alaska, except for the scallop vessel moratorium program. This action is necessary to eliminate duplicative regulations and management programs at the State and Federal levels and is intended to further the goals and objectives of the FMP.

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.