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Final Environmental Assessment/ Regulatory Impact Review for Amendment 114 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area and Amendment 104 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska, and Regulatory Amendments Analysis to Integrate Electronic Monitoring into the North Pacific Observer Program
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2017
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Description:This document analyzes a proposed management change to establish electronic monitoring (EM) as a part of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council)’s fisheries research plan for the fixed gear groundfish and halibut fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. The Council’s fisheries research plan is implemented by the North Pacific Observer Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center, and its purpose is to collect data necessary for the conservation, management, and scientific understanding of the groundfish and halibut fisheries off Alaska. This document analyzes alternatives that would allow an EM system, which consists of a control center to manage the data collection, connected to an array of peripheral components including digital cameras, gear sensors, and a global positioning system receiver, onboard vessels to monitor the harvest and discard of fish and other incidental catch at sea, as a supplement to existing observer coverage.
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