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Information Bulletin 99-92
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228
August 24, 1999
12:20 p.m.

NMFS Re-Apportionment of Halibut Bycatch Mortality Allowancein the BSAI

NMFS announces the reapportionment of the 1999 halibut bycatch mortality allowance specified for the Pacific cod hook-and-line fishery category to the other nontrawl fishery category in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area according to Steven Pennoyer, Administrator, Alaska Region.

This action is necessary to allow the harvest of species constrained by the other nontrawl halibut bycatch mortality allowance, in particular Greenland turbot, while not further restricting the hook-and-line Pacific cod fishery.

Table 7A. 1999 BSAI prohibited species bycatch allowances for the BSAI non-trawl fisheries


Non-trawl fisheriesHalibut mortality
(mt) BSAI
Pacific cod - Total598
   Jan. 1 - April 30457
   May 1 - Sept. 140
   Sept. 15 - Dec. 31141
Other non-trawl - Total234
   May 1 - Aug. 31142
   Sept. 1 - Dec. 31192
Groundfish pot & jigexempt
Sablefish hook-and-lineexempt



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