Environmental Assessment for Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area and Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska

Pennoyer, Steven; Fruchter, Susan B.

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Environmental Assessment for Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area and Amendment 56 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska

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1999
By Pennoyer, Steven ; Fruchter, Susan B.

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Personal Author:

Pennoyer, Steven ; Fruchter, Susan B.
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; AFSC (Alaska Fisheries Science Center) ; NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
Description:

This environmental assessment addresses a revision to the definition of overfishing for groundfish in these two fishery management plans. To comply with section 303(a) of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, maximum sustainable yield is treated as a limit, rather than a target. Overfishing is defined as any amount of fishing in access of prescribed maximum allowable rate. This maximum allowable rate is prescribed through a set of six tiers, which are listed in descending order of preference, corresponding to whether a given item of information is reliable for the purpose of this definition.
Keywords:

Environmental Impact Analysis Fishery Management Groundfish Fisheries Overfishing Sustainable Fisheries Environmental Impact Analysis Fishery Management Sustainable Fisheries
Format:

pdf
Document Type:

Environmental Assessment
Place as Subject:

Alaska, Gulf of (Alaska) ; Aleutian Islands (Alaska) ; Bering Sea
Rights Information:

Public Domain
Compliance:

Submitted
Main Document Checksum:

urn:sha-512:8b07b66f3e71b4c5db06332b2df46c91118485334115d69a7f8a6ecbdac1dfacaa39e3086fbc60ef30ecbf0f73b46b957284d5fe4958da9a8cf508e67e76d734
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19564/noaa_19564_DS1.pdf
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