2020–2021 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
2020 and 2021 harvest specifications, apportionments, and Pacific halibut prohibited species catch limits for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), and final 2020 and 2021 harvest specifications, apportionments, and prohibited species catch allowances for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). These actions are necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish during the remainder of the 2020 and the start of the 2021 fishing years and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the BSAI and the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish of the GOA.
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 (86 FR 1301, 01/08/2021)
- GOA TAC Adjustment (85 FR 83834, 12/23/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 83473, 12/22/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 81155, 12/15/2020)
- GOA Reallocation (85 FR 77406, 12/02/2020)
- Final Rule: Revisions to GOA Harvest Specifications (85 FR 74266, 11/20/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 72580, 11/13/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 69517, 11/03/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 64413, 10/09/2020)
- BSAI Exchange (85 FR 59204, 9/21/20)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (85 FR 49976, 8/17/20)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 49976, 8/17/20)
- GOA Reallocation (85 FR 49606, (8/14/20)
- GOA Reapportionment (85 FR 45343, 7/28/20)
- Correction GOA Table 18 (85 FR 29670, 05/18/20)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 18152, 04/01/2020)
- BSAI Reallocation (85 FR 17034, 03/26/2020)
- Final Rule: GOA Groundfish Harvest Specifications (85 FR 13802, 03/10/2020)
- Final Rule: BSAI Groundfish Harvest Specifications (85 FR 13553, 03/09/2020)
- Proposed Rule: GOA Groundfish Harvest Specifications (84 FR 66109, 12/03/2019)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Groundfish Harvest Specifications (84 FR 66129, 12/03/2019)
Supporting Materials
- 2020–2021 Harvest Specification Tables
- Information Bulletins
- TAC Changes and Further Catch Share Allocations
- Groundfish Harvest Specifications (all years)
- BSAI Groundfish Harvest Specifications Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
- GOA Groundfish Harvest Specifications Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
- Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications EIS
- Federal Fisheries in Alaska