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
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 ves...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.77.882 http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/analyses/Pcod85_306.pdf |
Summary: | 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 processor, AFA trawl catcher processor, non-AFA trawl catcher vessel, and AFA trawl catcher vessel sectors. 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 by which to apportion each sector’s allocation between the BS and AI subareas, in the event that the BSAI Pacific cod ABC and TAC are 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 should the TAC split occur and is intended to recognize differences in dependency among gear groups and sectors that fish for Pacific cod in the BS and AI. Prepared by staff of the |
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