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)).
(1)
NPFMC (North Pacific Fisheries Management Council).
point had been reached or exceeded--the
NPFMC expected that commercial
"Alaska Sablefish Assessment for 2008." Prepared for
NPFMC Bering Sea/Aleutian Island and Gulf of Alaska Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation, 2007.
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).
(
NPFMC or the Council) bucked decades of reactive fishery management by
Many factors temper the
NPFMC's deliberations in setting its annual catch limits, but science weighs in heavily.
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).
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.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (
NPFMC) has jurisdiction over the federal fisheries off the coast of Alaska.
This is close to the natural mortality rate (M - 0.3) estimated for adult Tanner crabs (
NPFMC 1998).
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.