2018-2019 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
2018-2019 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 during the 2018 and 2019 fishing years 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
- BSAI Reallocation (84 FR 9976, 03/19/2019)
- BSAI Reallocation, Correction to Table 5 (84 FR 2776, 02/08/2019)
- GOA Reallocation (83 FR 65146, 12/19/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 60784, 11/27/2018)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserve (83 FR 55109, 11/02/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 56740, 10/14/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 50036, 10/04/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 42802, 08/21/2018)
- GOA Adjustment (83 FR 34951, 07/24/2018)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserve (83 FR 28169, 06/15/2018)
- Correction to BSAI Tables 6 & 7 (83 FR 17114, 04/18/2018)
- BSAI Reallocation (83 FR 9235, 03/05/2018)
- Final Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (83 FR 8768, 03/01/2018)
- Final Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (83 FR 8365, 02/27/2018)
- Correction to 82 FR 60329: BSAI Adjustment (83 FR 2564, 01/18/2018)
- GOA Adjustment (82 FR 60327, 12/20/2017)
- BSAI Adjustment (82 FR 60329, 12/20/2017)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (82 FR 57906, 12/08/2017)
- Proposed Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (82 FR 57924, 12/08/2017)