Section 10 PACIFIC OCEAN PERCH by Paul D. Spencer, Daniel H. Ito, and James N. Ianelli Executive Summary

• Main Authors: Relative To Last, Paul D. Spencer, Daniel H. Ito, James N. Ianelli
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Tac; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.6661; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/safes/2000/10Pop.bsa.pdf

INTRODUCTION Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) inhabit the outer continental shelf and upper slope regions of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. The management of Pacific ocean perch in these areas has been divided into two geographic units corresponding to the eastern Bering Sea slope and the Aleutian Islands region. The management stock from the Aleutian Islands region is the larger of the two. Pacific ocean perch, and four other associated species of rockfish (northern rockfish, S. polyspinis; rougheye rockfish, S. aleutianus; shortraker rockfish, S. borealis; and sharpchin rockfish, S. zacentrus) were managed as a complex in the two distinct areas from 1979 to 1990. Known as the POP complex, these five species were managed as a single entity with a single TAC (total allowable catch). In 1991, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council enacted new regulations that changed the species composition of the POP complex. For the eastern Bering Sea slope region, the POP comple