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Environmental assessment and regulatory impact review for continuing implementation of the catch sharing plan for Pacific halibut in Area 2A, 2014-2016
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2013
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Description:The Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 at 16 U.S.C. 773c provides that the Secretary of Commerce shall have general responsibility to carry out the Halibut Convention between the United States and Canada and that the Secretary shall adopt such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and objectives of the Convention and the Halibut Act. Section 773c(c) also authorizes the regional fishery management council having authority for the geographic area concerned to develop regulations governing the Pacific halibut catch in U.S. Convention waters that are in addition to, but not in conflict with, regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). Accordingly, NMFS adopted in 1995 a long-term catch sharing plan to allocate the total allowable catch (TAC) of Pacific halibut between treaty Indian and non-Indian harvesters, and among non-Indian commercial and sport fisheries in IPHC statistical Area 2A (off Washington, Oregon, and California). In each of the intervening years between 1995 and the present, minor revisions to the Plan have been made to adjust for the changing needs of the fisheries. This EA analyzes the effects on the environment of the continued implementation of the Catch Sharing Plan in 2014 through 2016, and updates the affected environment sections for all listed species that occur in Area 2A.
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