DRAFT Fishery Management Plan for Fish Resources

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Plan; Arctic; Bering Strait; Canada; Cape Prince of Wales; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Varden; Chukchi; Red king crab; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.153.5813; http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/analyses/arctic/ArcticFMP1108.pdf

NOTE: This is an interim draft of what the Arctic FMP will look like. It is written assuming the Council chose Alternative 3 and exempted a small red king crab fishery in the eastern Chukchi Sea from this FMP. The Council has NOT chosen its preferred alternative, so this is merely an example of the FMP at this time. The Council also has not chosen its preferred option for specifying conservation and management measures; therefore, both Option 1 and Option 2 are included in this draft FMP. This draft does not fully respond to comments from the Council's SSC, particularly regarding Options 1 and 2; SSC comments on an earlier draft FMP are listed in the accompanying EA/RIR/IRFA. Please refer to this document for detailed analyses of the alternatives and options and for additional background information. NOTE: This document has not been cleared by NOAA General Counsel, Alaska Region. [this page intentionally left blank] Executive Summary This Fishery Management Plan (FMP) governs all commercial harvests of fish in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. 1 The FMP management area, the Arctic Management Area, is all marine waters in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas from 3 nautical miles offshore the coast of Alaska or its baseline to 200 nautical miles offshore, north of Bering Strait (from Cape Prince of Wales to Cape Dezhneva) and westward to the U.S./Russia Convention Line of 1867 and eastward to the U.S./Canada maritime boundary (see Appendix A). The FMP covers commercial fisheries (any commercial harvests) for all stocks of fish, which include all finfish, shellfish, or other marine living resources except salmonids, Pacific halibut, Pacific herring, whitefish, and Dolly Varden char. The FMP was implemented on (***DATE***). It may be referred to as the Arctic Fishery Management