Fishery program reports on data transfers, quota shares, allocations, cooperatives, cost recovery, arbitration, crab seasons and TAC, ex-vessel value and volume prices, program development, and annual reports.
Catch and landings reports for federal fisheries off Alaska include daily updates for the crab and IFQ halibut and sablefish fisheries, and weekly updates for the groundfish fisheries and the prohibited species catch limit in the groundfish fisheries.
Eligible communities can form nonprofit entities called Community Quota Entities (CQEs). If a CQE represents a community eligible for privileges under a management program, the CQE may request no-cost community permits or purchase commercial Quota Share.
Over half of all federally managed fishery resources in the US are harvested from waters off Alaska. NOAA Fisheries partners with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the State of Alaska, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, and others.
The License Limitation Program is for commercial groundfish fisheries within the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (BSAI), commercial crab fisheries in the BSAI, and commercial scallop fisheries in the BSAI and GOA.
The following U.S. regulations and acts, as well as international treaties and agreements affect the management of the fisheries in the exclusive economic zone off Alaska.
Online logsheets may only be downloaded for temporary use 1) by eLogbook users in the event there is an Internet outage or 2) by Daily Fishing Logbook (DFL) and Daily Cumulative Production Logbook (DCPL) users in the case of an emergency.
Cost recovery for the Community Development Quota Program and limited access privilege programs, and fee collection for the observer partial coverage category in North Pacific groundfish and halibut fisheries.
A Federal License Limitation Program (LLP) license is required for vessels participating in directed fishing for LLP groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), or fishing in any BSAI LLP crab fisheries.