Fisheries Management - Information Bulletins
Information Bulletin 99-79 Sustainable Fisheries Division 907-586-7228 |
August 6, 1999 2:10 p.m. |
Monitoring of PollockCDQ inside the Steller Sea Lion Critical Habitat/Catcher Vessel Operation Area for 1999 The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published an extension and revision of an emergency interim rule (EIR) in the Federal Register on July 21, 1999 (64 FR 39087), that implemented reasonable and prudent alternatives for management of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands area pollock fisheries. One measure implemented in this EIR is the requirement that the catch of pollock Community Development Quota (CDQ) in the directed fisheries for pollock CDQ within the Steller sea lion critical habitat/catcher vessel operational area (CH/CVOA) after April 15, 1999 ("B-season") be limited to 56 percent of each CDQ group's pollock CDQ seasonal allowance. |