Analysis of a regulatory amendment that would require hook-and-line vessels fishing for Pacific halibut in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands and Gulf Of Alaska management areas to employ specified bird avoidance techniques to reduce seabird bycatch.
Analysis of Amendment 40, which would establish a prohibited species catch (PSC) limit for Chionoecetes opilio crab in a new C. opilio PSC Bycatch Limitation Zone of the Bering Sea.
This Environmental Assessment addresses an experimental fishing permit application by the Groundfish Forum to test the effects of an intermediate trawl escape panel on species and size composition of catch in trawls targeting flatfish.
Analysis of an action to establish an area surrounding the Pribilof island area as a habitat conservation area to prohibit the use of trawl gear to control chinook salmon bycatch in the BSAI groundfish trawl fisheries