American Fisheries Act (AFA) and Community Development Quota (CDQ) Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock fisheries electronic monitoring requirements aboard catcher/processors and motherships.
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.
The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program allocates a percentage of all Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands quotas for groundfish, prohibited species, halibut, and crab to eligible communities.
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.
All U.S. vessels harvesting Exclusive Economic Zone fish and shoreside processors, stationary floating processors, and motherships receiving EEZ fish are required to hold a Federal permit and thus comply with recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
Program Summary: The western Alaska Community Development Quota Program (CDQ Program) provides western Alaska villages with the opportunity to participate and invest in fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries.