2015-2016 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
2015-2016 harvest specifications, apportionments, and Pacific halibut prohibited species catch limits for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. This action is necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska and Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
50 CFR 679 regulations allow for changes during the fishing year to the total allowable catch (TAC), PSC limits, and further allocations of the TAC and PSC limits. NOAA implements these changes through publications in the Federal Register. The changes include inseason adjustments, reallocations of sector amounts, reallocations from the non-specified reserves, BSAI flatfish flexibility exchanges, and other necessary changes as recommended by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and approval by the Secretary of Commerce.
Federal Register
- Reallocation: Revision to BSAI Table 5 (81 FR 12829, 03/11/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 5 (81 FR 8418, 02/19/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 5627, 02/03/2016)
- Adjustment: Revisions to BSAI Tables 5, 7 and 9 (81 FR 184, 01/05/2016)
- Adjustment: Revisions to GOA Tables 4 and 6 (81 FR 188, 01/01/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (80 FR 80290, 12/24/2015)
- GOA Reallocation (80 FR 77275, 12/14/2015)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (80 FR 76249, 12/08/2015)
- BSAI Reallocation (80 FR 76250, 12/08/2015)
- GOA Adjustment (80 FR 67346, 11/02/2015)
- Reallocation: Revisions to BSAI 11 and 13 (80 FR 66839, 10/30/2015)
- BSAI Reallocation (80 FR 65971, 10/28/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 65663, 10/27/2015)
- Correction: GOA Table 16 (80 FR 62502, 10/16/2015)
- Reallocation: Revision to BSAI Table 6 (80 FR 60807, 10/08/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 60073, 10/05/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 58220, 09/28/2015)
- BSAI Reallocation (80 FR 57105, 09/22/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 55562, 09/16/2015)
- Reapportionment: GOA Table 16 (80 FR 54737, 09/11/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 52673, 09/01/2015)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (80 FR 52204, 08/28/2015)
- Reallocation: Adjustment to BSAI Table 4 (80 FR 51961, 08/27/2015)
- BSAI Reallocation (80 FR 51757, 08/26/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (80 FR 38017, 07/02/2015)
- GOA Adjustment (80 FR 16996, 03/31/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 4 (80 FR 15695, 03/25/2015)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 4 (80 FR 12781, 03/11/2015)
- Final Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (80 FR 11919, 03/05/2015)
- Final Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (80 FR 10250, 02/25/2015)
- Correction to Proposed BSAI Harvest Specifications (80 FR 2910, 01/21/2015)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (79 FR 72571, 12/08/2014)
- Proposed GOA Harvest Specifications (79 FR 72593, 12/08/2014)