1.
Background: At the Ninth Annual Conference of the Parties
to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock
Resources in the Central Bering Sea held last September in
Kushiro, Japan, the Parties agreed on a Scientific and Technical
(S&T) Committee Work Plan for 2005. This Plan requires that two
workshops be held: (1) a genetics workshop to
address research on the composition of pollock stocks in the
Bering Sea, and (2) a workshop to identify scientific
factors that should be considered in deriving an AHL (Annual
Harvest Level) after the Allowable Biological Catch (ABC) is
determined by the S&T Committee. The United States offered to
host an AHL workshop in May-June 2005 at the NOAA Alaska
Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington, and suggested
that the Parties consider holding a Genetics Workshop at the
same time.
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