2016-2017 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
Summary
2016-2017 harvest specifications, apportionments, and Pacific halibut prohibited species catch limits for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. This action is necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska and Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
50 CFR 679 regulations allow for changes during the fishing year to the total allowable catch (TAC), prohibited species catch (PSC) limits, and further allocations of the TAC and PSC limits. NOAA implements these changes through publications in the Federal Register. The changes include inseason adjustments, reallocations of sector amounts, reallocations from the non-specified reserves, BSAI flatfish flexibility exchanges, and other necessary changes as recommended by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and approval by the Secretary of Commerce.
Federal Register
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 5 (82 FR 10964, 02/17/2017)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 5 (82 FR 9975, 02/09/2017)
- BSAI Reallocation (82 FR 8905, 02/01/2017)
- Adjustment: BSAI Table 5 (82 FR 2916, 01/09/2017)
- Adjustment: Revisions to GOA Tables 4 & 6 (81 FR 95063, 12/27/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 95062, 12/27/2016)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (81 FR 86288, 11/30/2016)
- GOA Adjustment (81 FR 83716, 11/22/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 80006, 11/15/2016)
- Reallocation, Revision to BSAI Tables 11 & 13 (81 FR 76875, 11/04/2016)
- Reallocation (81 FR 76530, 11/03/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 75740, 11/01/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 72740, 10/21/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 69445, 10/06/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 6 (81 FR 69443, 10/06/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 69442, 10/06/2016)
- BSAI Apportionment of Reserves (81 FR 68369, 10/04/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 64782, 09/21/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 63716, 09/16/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 61143, 09/07/2016)
- GOA Adjustment (81 FR 60648, 09/02/2016)
- BSAI Reallocation (81 FR 57491, 08/23/2016)
- Reallocation, Adjustment to BSAI Table 5 (81 FR 52367, 08/08/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 48722, 07/26/2016)
- Apportionment of Reserves; Revision to GOA Table 15 (81 FR 45423, 07/14/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 41253, 06/24/2016)
- BSAI Amendment 111: Revised Tables 14, 16, 17, & 18 (81 FR 24714, 04/27/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Tables 11 and 13 (81 FR 21482, 04/12/2016)
- GOA Adjustment (81 FR 17096, 03/28/2016)
- Reallocation: BSAI Table 4 (81 FR 16097, 03/25/2016)
- GOA Reallocation (81 FR 15650, 03/24/2016)
- Final Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (81 FR 14740, 03/18/2016)
- Final Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (81 FR 14773, 03/18/2016)
- Proposed Rule: GOA Harvest Specifications (80 FR 76425, 12/09/2015)
- Proposed Rule: BSAI Harvest Specifications (80 FR 76405, 12/09/2015)