NPFMC

Acronym	Definition
NPFMC	North Pacific Fisheries Management Council

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Catch shares may also facilitate consolidation, lowering the aggregate costs of harvesting the annual quota, and in turn increasing economic efficiency (e.g., Bering Sea crab rationalization (NPFMC, 2016a)).

The Distribution of Fishing Revenues Among North Pacific Regions and Communities

(1) NPFMC (North Pacific Fisheries Management Council).

Distinction of saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) from several other gadid species by using microsatellite markers

point had been reached or exceeded--the NPFMC expected that commercial

Increasing mitigation ambition: establishing "mitigation reference points" to trigger mandatory greenhouse gas reductions

"Alaska Sablefish Assessment for 2008." Prepared for NPFMC Bering Sea/Aleutian Island and Gulf of Alaska Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation, 2007.

Estimating time-varying bargaining power: a fishery application

Yellowfin sole was the first groundfish species targeted by the eastern Bering Sea commercial fisheries during the late 1960's, while other species were only taken as bycatch (NPFMC, 2011b).

Lessons on Marine Protected Area Management in Northern Boreal Regions from the United States and Norway

(NPFMC or the Council) bucked decades of reactive fishery management by

Scientific certainty thresholds in fisheries management: a response to a changing climate

Many factors temper the NPFMC's deliberations in setting its annual catch limits, but science weighs in heavily.

Alaska groundfish management: is it precautionary and sustainable? Fisheries off Alaska account for around half of total U.S. harvests and are the state's No. 1 private-sector employer

The State's authority is derived from a 1989 cooperative Bering Sea Aleutian Islands (BSAI) king and Tanner crab fishery management plan (FMP) (NPFMC, 1989).

Impact analysis of changes in fishery regulations in the Norton Sound red king crab fishery

The depth strata are further segregated by the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council's (NPFMC) Bering Sea Aleutian Islands regulatory area (NPFMC (3)) into survey districts that correspond to the NPFMC subdivisions of western, central, and eastern Aleutian districts and an additional southern Bering Sea survey district that roughly corresponds to the Bogoslof district.

Correlating environmental and biogenic factors with abundance and distribution of Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has jurisdiction over the federal fisheries off the coast of Alaska.

Federal fisheries observer programs in the United States: over 40 years of independent data collection

This is close to the natural mortality rate (M - 0.3) estimated for adult Tanner crabs (NPFMC 1998).

Inshore Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) biology in a central coast inlet, British Columbia, Canada

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has been unable to prevent the decline of species such as pollock, Pacific cod, halibut or Atka mackerel; NPFMC models project significant drops in catch quotas for most groundfish species in the coming years.

Alaska as a model for sustainable fisheries? Not quite. We are facing disaster unless we protect the fisheries and ecosystems in the state