June 2012[this page intentionally left blank] FMP for Groundfish of the BSAI Management Area Executive Summary Executive Summary

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Aleutian Islands; Tanner crab
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.359.4923; http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/npfmc/PDFdocuments/fmp/BSAI/BSAI.pdf

This Fishery Management Plan (FMP) governs groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI). The FMP management area is the United States (U.S.) Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Bering Sea and that portion of the North Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Aleutian Islands which is between 170E W. longitude and the U.S.-Russian Convention Line of 1867. The FMP covers fisheries for all stocks of finfish and marine invertebrates except salmonids, shrimps, scallops, snails, king crab, Tanner crab, Dungeness crab, corals, surf clams, horsehair crab, lyre crab, Pacific halibut, and Pacific herring. The FMP was implemented on January 1, 1982. As of April 2004, it has been amended over seventy times, and its focus has changed from the regulation of mainly foreign fisheries to the management of fully domestic groundfish fisheries. This version of the FMP has been revised to remove or update obsolete references, as well as outdated catch data and other scientific information. The FMP has also been reorganized to provide readers with a clear understanding of the BSAI groundfish fishery and conservation and management measures promulgated by the FMP. 1.1 Management Policy The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) is the