This Environmental Assessment addresses an experimental fishing permit application by the Groundfish Forum to test the effects of an intermediate trawl escape panel on species and size composition of catch in trawls targeting flatfish.
Examination of population genetic structure and movement patterns of beluga whales in Alaska and northwest Canada using nucleotide sequence variation within the mitochondrial genome's control region.
This action would increase Pacific halibut quota share (QS) use limits for QS holders in the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program in Regulatory Area 4 in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.