PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT Fishery Management Plan for Fish Resources

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Bering Strait; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.160.8041; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/current_issues/Arctic/ArcticFMP109.pdf

NOTE: This is a draft of the Arctic FMP that is intended to provide the Council and the public with a general idea of how the Arctic FMP will be structured and its substantive content. It is written assuming the Council chose Alternative 2 (closing the Arctic Management Area to commercial fishing), and option 3 (setting fishery conservation and management measures). The Council has NOT selected its preferred alternative or option, so this draft is an example of the FMP at this time. Please refer to the accompanying Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis document for detailed analyses of the alternatives and options and for additional background information. This draft FMP will be modified to reflect the preferred alternative and option ultimately selected by the Council and any other necessary changes. [this page intentionally left blank] Executive Summary This Fishery Management Plan (FMP) governs commercial fishing for most species of fish within the Arctic Management Area. 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