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Information Bulletin 02-71
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228
September 10, 2002
1:40 p.m.

REVISED NMFS Reallocates Pollock from the Incidental Catch Account to the Directed Fisheries for Pollock in the Bering Sea Subarea

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is reallocating the projected unused amount (9,000 metric tons) of Bering Sea subarea pollock from the incidental catch account to the directed fisheries according to James W. Balsiger, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.

The following table summarizes the reallocation in metric tons:

Bering Sea pollock fishery

Current AllowanceThis ActionRevised Amount
Inshore component
catcher vessels		641,520+4,500646,020
Offshore component
Catcher/processors		469,593+3,294472,887
8.5% for catcher vessels43,623+ 30643,929
Motherships
catcher vessels		128,304+ 900129,204
Incidental catch account53,460-9,00044,460


This action is taken pursuant to 50 CFR 679.20(a)(5)(i)(C) and the American Fisheries Act (Public Law 105-277, Division C, Title II). This information bulletin only provides notice of a regulatory change. For the purposes of complying with the regulatory change, you are advised to see the actual text of the regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations.
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