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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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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.
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