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Environmental Assessment and Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for Amendment 17 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (Including Changes to the FMP)
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1988
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Description:The domestic and foreign groundfish fishery in the fishery conservation zone (3-200 miles offshore) of the Gulf of Alaska is managed under the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (FMP). The FMP was developed by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act). It was approved by the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA, (Assistant Administrator) and implemented December 11, 1978 (43 FR 52709, November 14, 1978). Amendments 1-11 and 13-16 to the FMP have been approved by the Assistant Administrator. Amendment 12 was adopted initially by the Council at its July and December, 1982 meetings but was later rescinded by the Council at its September, 1984 meeting without having been submitted formally for Secretarial review.
At its April 13-15, 1988 meeting, the Council reviewed the status of the FMP and certain problems that have been identified, either through experience gained from 10 years of fishery management or through situations unforeseen as the domestic fishery has developed. It received recommendations from the Plan Team (PT), the Advisory Panel (AP), and the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) on alternative management measures that could be adopted, as Amendment 17 to the FMP, to resolve the problems. The Council adopted an Amendment 17 "public hearing" package for consideration by the public, the fishing industry, and management agencies that analyzes the biological, ecological, and socioeconomic effects of these management measures.
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