Fisheries Management
Changes to the 2011-2012 Harvest Specifications
Apportionment of Reserves
- 76 FR 76902, December 9, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of sculpins in the Bering Sea subarea of the BSAI. Effective December 6, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Comment period through December 21, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 71269, November 17, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of Greenland turbot in the Bering Sea subarea of the BSAI. Effective November 14, 2011, through December 31, 2011. Comment period through November 29, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 70665, November 15, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of Pacific ocean perch in the Bering Sea subarea of the BSAI. Effective November 9, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Comment period through November 25, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 53840, August 30, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of other rockfish, other flatfish, sharks, and skates in the BSAI. Effective August 25, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Comment period through September 9, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 33172, June 8, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of Alaska plaice in the BSAI. Effective June 3, 2011, through December 31, 2011. Comment period through June 20, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 17360, March 29, 2011. Temporary rule to apportion amounts of the non-specified reserve to the initial total allowable catch of octopus in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Effective March 24, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Comment period through April 8, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
Changes
- 77 FR 438, January 5, 2012. Temporary rule to adjust the 2012 total allowable catch amount for GOA pollock and Pacific cod. Effective January 5, 2012. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 81873, December 29, 2011. Temporary rule to adjust the 2012 total allowable catch amount for the BSAI Atka mackerel fishery. Effective December 29, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 81876, December 29, 2011. Temporary rule to adjust the 2012 total allowable catch amount for the Bering Sea pollock fishery. Effective December 29, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 81875, December 29, 2011. Temporary rule to adjust the 2012 total allowable catch amount for the BSAI Pacific cod fishery. Effective December 29, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 35772, June 20, 2011. Final rule to revise regulations governing exemptions from and calculations of sideboard harvest limits in the Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod and pollock fisheries and to revise Tables 17 and 18 that establish the 2011–2012 Gulf of Alaska groundfish harvest sideboard limits. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 12607, March 8, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amounts of the Aleut Corporation’s pollock directed fishing allowance and the Community Development Quota from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea directed fisheries. Effective March 8, 2011, until December 31, 2011, unless otherwise modified or superseded through publication of a notification in the Federal Register.
Corrections
- 76 FR 17034, March 28, 2011. Correction to a final rule that published on March 1, 2011, implementing the final 2011 and 2012 harvest specifications and prohibited species catch allowances for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area. Two tables within the document contained errors. Effective March 1, 2011, through December 31, 2012.
Reallocations
- 77 FR 8176, February 14, 2012. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 meters) length overall using hook-and-line or pot gear in the BSAI. Effective February 8, 2012 through December 31, 2012. (Information Bulletin)
- 77 FR 2656, January 19, 2012. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amounts of the Aleut Corporation's pollock directed fishing allowance and the Community Development Quota from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea directed fisheries. Effective January 19, 2012. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 76903, December 9, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amounts of Pacific cod total allowable catch from catcher vessels using trawl gear and jig gear sectors to American Fisheries Act trawl catcher/processors and catcher/ processors using hook-and-line gear in the BSAI. Effective December 9, 2011, through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 65973, October 25, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amounts of the 2011 crab prohibited species catch allowances from the BSAI trawl limited access sector to the Amendment 80 cooperatives in the BSAI. Effective October 25, 2011, through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 63204, October 12, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate projected unused amounts of yellowfin sole total allowable catch assigned to the BSAI trawl limited access sector to the Amendment 80 cooperative. Effective October 6, 2011 through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 54137, August 31, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate projected unused amounts of Pacific cod from catcher vessels using trawl gear and catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet (18.3 meters (m)) length overall (LOA) using hook-and-line gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 m) LOA using hook-and-line or pot gear in the BSAI. Effective September 1, 2011, through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 29671, May 23, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate Pacific Cod in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area. Effective May 18, 2011, through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 24403, May 2, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear and catcher vessels greater than or equal to 60 feet length overall (LOA) using hook-and-line gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet LOA using hook-and-line or pot gear in the BSAI. Effective April 30, 2011 through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
- 76 FR 12293, March 7, 2011. Temporary rule to reallocate the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 meters) length overall using hook-and-line or pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area. Effective March 1, 2011, through December 31, 2011. (Information Bulletin)
Further Limited Access Program Allocations
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