Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Management Area ALLOCATION OF PACIFIC COD AMONG SECTORS and APPORTIONMENT OF SECTOR ALLOCATIONS BETWEEN

• Main Authors: Bering Sea, Aleutian, Islands Subareas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Tac; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.62.2451; http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/analyses/BSAI85_106.pdf

Abstract: Part I of this Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis analyzes the 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 sectors ’ allocations between the non-AFA trawl catcher processors, AFA trawl catcher processors, non-AFA trawl catcher vessels, and AFA trawl catcher vessels. This action also considers increasing the BSAI Pacific cod allocation to the western Alaska Community Development Quota Program. Part I is intended to reduce uncertainty and provide stability by revising the sector allocations to reflect historic use by sector and other considerations. Part II of this action would establish a methodology that would apportion each sector’s allocation between the BS and AI subareas, in the event that the BSAI Pacific cod ABC and TAC is apportioned between the BS and AI subareas in a future harvest specifications process. This action would ensure that the benefits of sector allocations could be maintained in that case and is intended to recognize differences in dependency among gear groups and sectors that fish for Pacific cod in the BS and AI.