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This document is a Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) and Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) for seven proposed actions to amend halibut and sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) regulations under the authority of the NOAA Fisheries Service. The preferred alternatives would: (1) allow the...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.153.5716 http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/analyses/amd67/rir_irfa_61506.pdf |
| Summary: | This document is a Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) and Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA) for seven proposed actions to amend halibut and sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) regulations under the authority of the NOAA Fisheries Service. The preferred alternatives would: (1) allow the use of medical transfers; (2) tighten the criteria allowing the use of hired skippers; (3) add vessel clearance requirements to the sablefish IFQ fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands regulatory areas; (4) change the sablefish product recovery rate for bled sablefish to 1.0; (5) amend the halibut quota share (QS) block program to: a) increase the block limit to three, unless unblocked QS is held; b) unblock QS in excess of 69,492 QS units in Area 3B and 93,404 QS units in Area 4A from a single block; and c) increase the sweep-up limits to 33,320 units in Area 2C and 46,520 units in Area 3A; (6) allow IFQ derived from category D QS to be fished on |
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