Environmental Assessment for Amendment 58 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area

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Environmental Assessment for Amendment 58 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area

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Corporate Authors:

National Marine Fisheries Service (U.S.) ; Alaska Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; AKR (Alaska Region)
Description:

Amendment 58 will reduce the annual trawl bycatch limits for Chinook salmon and will revise the Chinook Salmon Savings Area (CHSSA) in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). Amendment 58 will: (1) reduce the chinook salmon bycatch limit from 46,000 salmon to 29,000 salmon over a 4-year period, (2) implement year-round accounting of chinook salmon bycatch in the Pollack fishery beginning on January 1 of each year, (3) revise, the -boundaries of the CHSSA, and (4) set new CHSSA closure dates, The intended effect of this amendment is to reduce trawl bycatch of chinook salmon in the BSAI.
Keywords:

Bycatches Chinook Salmon Fisheries Fishery Management Groundfish Fisheries Pollock Trawls And Trawling Chinook Salmon Fishery Management Groundfish Fisheries Trawls And Trawling
Document Type:

Environmental Assessment
Place as Subject:

Alaska, Gulf of ; Aleutian Islands (Alaska) ; Bering Sea
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Public Domain
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Library
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urn:sha256:54ef70e94a0340eb7578da95d6f33f9b78794394869a3a9529d48d770651c145
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19124/noaa_19124_DS1.pdf
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