Amendment 80 Cooperatives

Amendment 80, implemented in 2008, allocates BSAI yellowfin sole, flathead sole, rock sole, Atka mackerel, and Aleutian Islands Pacific ocean perch to the head and gut trawl catcher processor sector, and allows qualified vessels to form cooperatives. The program establishes GOA groundfish sideboard limits for pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish, as well as GOA halibut PSC. GOA sideboard restrictions are based on historic participation during 1998-2004. In addition, participation in the GOA flatfish fishery is prohibited for vessels with less than 10 weeks of history in the GOA flatfish fisheries. One vessel is exempt from the GOA halibut PSC sideboard limits, having fished 80% of its weeks in the GOA flatfish fisheries from 2000 through 2003.

Documents and Council Motions

2011

2010

2009

  • Am93: Modify Am80 Coop formation criteria - 12/09
  • Modifying Am80 coop formation criteria (Am 93) - 4/09
  • Am80 coop formation criteria (Am93) - 2/09

2008

  • Adjusting 3rd Qtr Halibut PSC sideboards for Am80 vessels EA - 10/08
  • Am80 Vessel Replacement Provisions Discussion Paper - 10/08
  • Am80 sector cooperative criteria motion - 6/08
  • Am80 Post delivery transfers and rollovers motion - 4/08

2007

2006