FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT/REGULATORY IMPACT REVIEW/ INITIAL REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS for Proposed AMENDMENT 85 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Management Area ALLOCATION OF PACIFIC COD AMONG SEC

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
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impacts of revising the separate apportionments of the BSAI Pacific cod ITAC among the fixed gear sectors (hook-and-line catcher processors, ≥60 ’ hook-and-line catcher vessels, pot catcher processors, ≥60 ’ pot catcher vessels, and pot/hook-and-line vessels <60 ' in length), jig sector, and trawl sectors based on recent sector catch histories. This action also proposes to implement a further split of the trawl CP sector allocation between the non-AFA and AFA trawl CP sectors. This action also proposes to increase the BSAI Pacific cod allocation to the western Alaska Community Development Quota Program and to modify that allocation such that it represents a directed fishing allowance. Finally, this amendment evaluates the effects of 1) apportioning halibut and crab prohibited species catch allowances among the Pacific cod trawl sectors, and 2) apportioning the halibut prohibited species catch allowance between the Pacific cod hook-and-line sectors. This amendment is intended to reduce uncertainty by establishing and modifying sector allocations such that they better reflect historic use, by sector, taking into account community and other socio-economic considerations. Prepared by staff of the