NPFMC To Take Final Action on Omnibus Amendments, Fee Collection Program
Final action on individual fishing quota omnibus amendments and the recreational quota entity collection program are on the agenda for when the North Pacific Fishery Management Council holds its spring meeting, scheduled for April 6-11 in Anchorage, in-person and virtually.
The Council is expected to review an analysis on several revisions to the IFQ program regulations and will also receive the Enforcement Committee Report. This analysis evaluates five elements relevant to pot gear used to fish IFQ, including gear specifications and configuration requirements, pot limits and gear retrieval requirements, and one element to authorize jig gear as a legal gear type for the harvest of sablefish IFQ.
The Council’s motion also included an alternative to temporarily remove the Adak comm...