2017-2018 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
2017-2018 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), prohibited species catch (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: Correction to BSAI Table 5 (83 FR 5052, 02/05/2018)
- Correction: BSAI Table 5 (83 FR 2564, 01/18/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 2932, 01/22/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 61190, 12/27/2017)
- Reallocation BSAI Table 6 (82 FR 60325, 12/20/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 6 (82 FR 57162, 12/04/2017)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (82 FR 56571, 11/29/2017)
- Reallocation: Correction to BSAI Tables 11 & 13 (82 FR 55053, 11/20/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (82 FR 51168, 11/03/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (82 FR 49539, 10/26/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (82 FR 48460, 10/18/2017)
- GOA Adjustment (82 FR 47403, 10/12/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 47162, 10/11/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 46422, 10/05/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 6 (82 FR 45740, 10/02/2017)
- BSAI Correction (82 FR 43503, 09/18/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 43503, 09/18/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 41899, 09/05/2017)
- GOA Adjustment (82 FR 41567, 09/01/2017)
- Reallocation and Correction to BSAI Tables 4 & 5 (82 FR 39366, 08/18/2017)
- Adjustment: Correction to GOA Table 15 (82 FR 33024, 07/19/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 5 (82 FR 31925, 07/11/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (82 FR 24253, 05/26/2017)
- GOA Reallocation (82 FR 16306, 04/04/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 12750, 03/07/2017)
- Final Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (82 FR 11826, 02/27/2017)
- Final Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (82 FR 12032, 02/27/2017)
- Adjustment: BSAI Tables 5, 7, & 9 (82 FR 2916, 01/10/2017)
- Adjustment: GOA Tables 4 & 6 (81 FR 95063, 12/7/2016)
- Proposed Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (81 FR 87881, 12/06/2016)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (81 FR 87863, 12/06/2016)