Section 14

• Main Authors: Summary Of Changes, Lowell W. Fritz
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.8070; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/safes/2000/14squid.bsa.pdf

INTRODUCTION The "other species" management group has been established to account for species which are currently of slight economic value and upon which there is little, if any, directed fishing. However, these species could have economic value in the future, and many are important components of the ecosystem as prey for commercial fish species, marine mammals and birds. Squid is considered separately from the "other species" management group, which includes sculpins, skates, sharks, and octopus. Smelts were removed from the "other species" group and moved to the forage fish group beginning in 1999 as a result of fishery management plan (FMP) amendments 36 and 39 to the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska groundfish FMPs. Information on the distribution, abundance, and biology of squid stocks in the eastern Bering Sea (EBS) and Aleutian Islands region is limited. The predominate species in commercial catches in the EBS is the red squid, Berryteuthis magister, while On