Fishing & Seafood Permits

Amendment 80 applications and permits including the Cooperative Quota Permit application, Flatfish Exchange Application, Inter-Cooperative Transfer of Cooperative Quota, Vessel Replacement application, and Limited Access Fishery Permit application.

Applications and forms for chinook salmon bycatch for the pollock and non-pollock trawl fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI).

Applications and forms for the Alaska Community Development Quota.

Applications for Alaska Community Quota Entities including applications for a CQE to Receive a Non-trawl Groundfish LLP License, Become An Eligible Crab Community Organization (ECCO), CQE Community Charter Halibut Permit, CQE Transfer of IFQ to an Eligible Community Resident or Non-Resident, Non-Profit Designation as CQE, Transfer of Crab QS/IFQ to or from a ECCO, and CQE Transfer (Lease) between IFQ and GAF.

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region issues exempted fishing permits to allow groundfish fishing activities for limited experimental purposes to support projects that could benefit the groundfish fisheries and the environment.

Alaska Federal Fisheries Permit application for U.S. vessels used to fish for groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and vessels used to fish for any non-groundfish species and that are required to retain bycatch of groundfish. Federal Processor Permit application for Alaska stationary floating processors and shoreside processors that process groundfish.

Applications and forms for the Pacific halibut and sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program in Alaska.

A Federal License Limitation Program (LLP) license is required for vessels participating in directed fishing for LLP groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI), or fishing in any BSAI LLP crab fisheries.

NOAA Fisheries certified observers collect data on Alaska groundfish and halibut fisheries to provide scientific information to which is used to manage Alaska's fisheries and develop measures to minimize bycatch.

Prohibited Species Donation permits authorize tax-exempt organizations to distribute salmon and/or halibut (delivered by catcher vessels using trawl gear to shoreside processors) to hunger relief agencies, food bank networks, or food bank distributors.