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• Main Authors: National Marine, Fisheries Service
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.; Bering Sea; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.364.3283; http://209.112.168.2/npfmc/PDFdocuments/MISC/BSAIArrowtoothMRA510.pdf

Abstract: This Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis evaluates the environmental impacts, costs and benefits, and small entity impacts of a proposed regulatory amendment. The proposed amendment would increase the maximum retainable amounts of selected groundfish in the arrowtooth flounder fishery in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. The purpose of the proposed amendment is to reduce the amount of regulatory discards of otherwise marketable groundfish in the developing arrowtooth flounder fishery and to allow the Amendment 80 fleet to retain those regulatory discards thereby improving their groundfish retention standard. This