Table 1. Species categories established for management |
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Prohibited Species
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FINFISHES |
Target Species 2 | Other Species 3 | Forage Fish |
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Salmon Pacific halibut Pacific herring Steelhead trout |
Walleye pollock Pacific cod Yellowfin sole Greenland turbot Arrowtooth flounder Rock sole Flathead sole Other flatfish Sablefish Pacific ocean perch Other red rockfish Other rockfish |
Sculpins Sharks Skates Smelt |
Eulachon Capelin Sandlance Myctophids Bathylagids Sandfish Pholids Stichaeids Gonostomatids |
INVERTEBRATES | |||
King crab Tanner crab |
Squid | Octopus | |
1. Species which must be returned to the sea when caught. |
Table 2. Summary of stock abundance (biomass), overfishing level (OFL),
acceptable biological catch (ABC), the fishing mortality rate corresponding to ABC (FOFL ),
and the fishing mortality rate corresponding to OFL (FABC ) for the eastern Bering Sea (EBS),
Aleutian Islands (AI), and Bogoslof district as projected for 2001. Biomass
corresponds to projected January 2001 abundance for the age+ range reported in the summary section.
Biomass, OFL, and ABC are in metric tons, reported to three significant digits.
Fs are reported to two significant digits. |
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Species or Species Complex | Area | Biomass | OFL | ABC | FOFL | FABC | ||
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Walleye pollock | EBS | 10,060,000 | 2,350,000 | 1,842,000 | 0.80 | 0.49 | ||
Walleye pollock | AI | 106,000 | 31,700 | 23,800 | 0.20 | 0.15 | ||
Walleye pollock | Bogoslof | 300,000 | 60,200 | 45,200 | 0.20 | 0.15 | ||
Pacific cod | BSAI | 1,320,000 | 248,000 | 188,000 | 0.32 | 0.28 | ||
Yellowfin sole | BSAI | 2,380,000 | 209,000 | 176,000 | 0.13 | 0.11 | ||
Greenland turbot | BSAI | 210,000 | 31,000 | 8,400 | 0.32 | 0.064 | ||
Arrowtooth flounder | BSAI | 701,000 | 141,500 | 117,000 | 0.28 | 0.23 | ||
Rock sole | BSAI | 1,940,000 | 271,000 | 228,000 | 0.19 | 0.16 | ||
Flathead sole | BSAI | 618,000 | 102,000 | 84,000 | 0.38 | 0.30 | ||
Other flatfish | BSAI | 865,000 | 147,000 | 122,000 | 0.36 | a | 0.29 | a |
Sablefish | EBS | 20,000 | 1,910 | 1,560 | 0.12 | 0.10 | ||
Sablefish | AI | 38,000 | 3,070 | 2,500 | 0.12 | 0.10 | ||
Pacific ocean perch | EBS | 41,000 | 2,040 | 1,730 | 0.048 | 0.040 | ||
Pacific ocean perch | AI | 191,000 | 11,800 | 10,200 | 0.069 | 0.059 | ||
Northern rockfish | BSAI | 150,000 | 9,020 | 6,760 | 0.060 | 0.045 | b | |
Rougheye rockfish | BSAI | 14,000 | 349 | 262 | 0.025 | 0.019 | b | |
Shortraker rockfish | BSAI | 34,000 | 1,020 | 766 | 0.030 | 0.023 | b | |
Other rockfish | EBS | 6,880 | 482 | 361 | 0.073 | c | 0.054 | c |
Other rockfish | AI | 12,900 | 901 | 676 | 0.073 | c | 0.054 | c |
Atka mackerel | BSAI | 553,000 | 138,000 | 58,700 | 0.42 | 0.19 | ||
Squid | BSAI | n/a | 2,620 | 1,970 | n/a | n/a | ||
Other species | BSAI | 567,000 | 113,000 | 26,500 | 0.12 | 0.044 | ||
TOTAL | 20,127,78 | 3,881,262 | 2,946,385 | |||||
a. Alaska plaice rate shown as an example. |
Table 3. Maximum
permissible fishing mortality rates and ABCs as defined in Amendment 56 to the
GOA and BSAI Groundfish FMPs, and the 2001 Plan Team recommended fishing
mortality rates and ABCs, for those species whose recommendations were below the
maximum. |
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Gulf of Alaska | 2001 Max. Permissible |
2001 Max. Permissible |
2001 | 2001 | |
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Species |
Tier | FABC | ABC | FABC | ABC |
Pacific cod | 3a | 0.37 | 76,700 | 0.33 | 67,800 |
Rougheye rockfish | 4 | 0.032 | 1,550 | 0.025 | 1,210 |
Shortraker rockfish | 5 | 0.023 | 520 | 0.023 | 520 |
Total Shortraker/Rougheye | 4,5 | 2,070 | 1,730 | ||
Other slope rockfish (sharpchin) | 3a | 0.055 | 1,980 | 0.050 | 1,800 |
Other slope rockfish (redstripe) | 5 | 0.075 | 1,240 | 0.075 | 1,240 |
Other slope rockfish (harlequin) | 5 | 0.045 | 560 | 0.045 | 560 |
Other slope rockfish (silvergrey) | 5 | 0.030 | 780 | 0.030 | 780 |
Other slope rockfish (redbanded) | 5 | 0.045 | 290 | 0.045 | 290 |
Other slope rockfish (minor species) | 5 | 0.045 | 220 | 0.045 | 220 |
Total other slope rockfish | 4,5 | 5,070 | 4,900 | ||
Pelagic shelf rockfish | 4 | 0.110 | 7,310 | 0.090 | 5,980 |
Demersal shelf rockfish | 4 | 0.025 | 420 | 0.020 | 330 |
Atka mackerel | 6 | NA | 4,700 | NA | 600 |
103,410 | 87,960 |