Magnuson-Stevens Act Definitions and Required Provisions

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• Alternative Title:
  Amendment 6 to the Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries Management Plan ; Amendment 8 to the Pelagic Fisheries Management Plan ; Amendment 10 to the Crustaceans Fisheries Management Plan ; Amendment 4 to the Precious Corals Fisheries Management Plan
• Corporate Authors:
  Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (U.S.).
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; PIR (Pacific Island Region) ; CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
• Description:
  This amendment adds new Magnuson-Stevens Act definitions to the fishery management plans (FMPs) of the western Pacific region and addresses the requirement of the Act that any FMP contain provisions regarding bycatch, fishing sectors, essential fish habitat (EFH), fishing communities and overfishing. The amendment compiles the best available scientific information pertaining to each of these new provisions and incorporates it directly or by reference into the Western Pacific Council's FMPs for bottomfish and seamount groundfish, pelagics, crustaceans and precious corals fisheries. In addition, the amendment identifies other scientific data that are needed to more effectively address the new provisions. A summary of the Council's response to each provision follows
• Keywords:
  Fisheries Fishery Management Law And Legislation Planning Fishery Management Law And Legislation
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Program & Policy Document
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA87FC0006 ; Grant no. NA87FC0014
• Place as Subject:
  Pacific Ocean ; United States
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c32ca831a4fd11cb9f70e323b87201b7ed9f95854c8f48dc8b91e946f3e411f1
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/56200/noaa_56200_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 188.38 MB ]