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Information Bulletin 06-101
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228

October 4, 2006
9:00 a.m.


NMFS Reallocates Pacific Cod from Vessels Using Trawl and Jig Gear to Vessels Using Hook-and-Line and Pot Gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is reallocating 12,833 metric tons (mt) of Pacific cod from vessels using trawl gear and 1,300 mt of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to vessels using pot gear and catcher processor vessels using hook-and-line gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area according to Robert D. Mecum, Acting Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.

The following table summarizes the reallocation in metric tons:

  CURRENT SHARE THESE ACTIONS REVISED SHARE
Pacific cod      
Hook and Line gear      
    Catcher Processor 71,218 + 13,491 84,709
Pot gear      
    Catcher Processor 2,938 + 115 3,053
    Catcher Vessel 13,354 + 526 13,880
Jig gear 1,514 - 1,300 214
Trawl gear      
    Catcher Processor 41,251 - 5,406 35,845
    Catcher Vessel 41,251 - 7,427 33,824

This action is necessary to allow the 2006 total allowable catch of Pacific cod to be harvested and is issued pursuant to 50 CFR 679.20(a)(7)(ii). This action does not imply any change in the status of the fisheries.

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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