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Final Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review for Amendment 16 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries in the EEZ Off Alaska
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2024
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Description:This Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review analyzes proposed management measures to address management of salmon fishing in the Cook Inlet EEZ. The Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries in the EEZ off Alaska (FMP) manages the salmon fisheries in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ; 3 nautical miles to 200 nautical miles offshore) off Alaska. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council developed this FMP under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). In 2012, the Council comprehensively revised the FMP to comply with the recent Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements, such as annual catch limits and accountability measures, and to more clearly reflect the Council’s policy with regard to State of Alaska management authority for commercial and sport salmon fisheries in the EEZ. A portion of this was challenged, and in response to a 2016 United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit ruling, the Council took final action in December 2020 to amend the FMP to manage the commercial salmon fishery that occurs in the EEZ waters of Cook Inlet that had been removed from Federal management with the 2012 revisions to the FMP. This action, Amendment 14 to the Salmon FMP, implemented Federal management of the EEZ waters of Cook Inlet and closed them to commercial salmon fishing. NMFS implemented Amendment 14 (86 FR 60568, November 3, 2021), but on June 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska vacated the implementing regulations for Amendment 14. NMFS is now considering new management measures to comply with Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements for the Cook Inlet salmon fishery in the EEZ, such as status determination criteria, annual catch limits, and accountability measures in response to both the 2016 Ninth Circuit ruling and the 2022 summary judgment opinion of the Alaska District Court in UCIDA et al. v. NMFS.
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