Bering Sea Chinook Salmon Bycatch
Bering Sea Chinook Salmon Bycatch Environmental Impact Statement
A Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (EIS/RIR/IRFA) was prepared to provide decision-makers and the public with an evaluation of the environmental, social, and economic effects of alternative measures to minimize Chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. The alternatives analyzed in this EIS/RIR/IRFA generally involve limits or “caps” on the number of Chinook salmon that may be caught in the Bering Sea pollock fishery and closure of all or a part of the Bering Sea to pollock fishing once the cap is reached. These closures would occur when a Chinook salmon bycatch cap is reached, even if the entire pollock total allowable catch has not yet been harvested. This document addresses the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, Executive Order 12866, and the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Comment Period
Public Comment Period Extended
Please provide written comments by February 23, 2009. Written comments should be submitted through mail, facsimile (fax), or email to, Robert D. Mecum, Acting Administrator:
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NMFS Alaska Region
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, AK 99802 - Fax: (907) 586-7557
- Email: salmonbycatcheis@noaa.gov
NOTE: When submitting fax or email comments, include the following document identifier in the comment subject line: Salmon Bycatch EIS.
- Draft Analysis
- Supporting Documents
- Comment period extended to February 23, 2009, January 2009 NEW!
- Public Meeting on January 20, 2009
- Notice of Availability and comment period, December 2008
- News Release
- Scoping Report, March 2008
- 72 FR 72994, December 26, 2007. Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on salmon bycatch reduction measures in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area. Comment period through February 15, 2008.
- Request Form for CD or printed copies of the Draft EIS
Related Information
- Salmon Fishery Mangement
- EA/RIR/FRFA for Modifying existing Chinook and chum salmon savings areas Final Rule Implementing Amendment 84 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (PDF), October 2007
- BSAI Chinook Salmon Mortality Estimates, 1991-2007 (PDF)
- BSAI Non-Chinook Salmon Mortality Estimates, 1991-2007 (PDF)
- North Pacific Fishery Management Council - Salmon Bycatch Information