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INFORMATION BULLETIN (99-144)
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228 		December 6, 1999
2:00 p.m.


NMFS REALLOCATES PACIFIC COD TO VESSELS USING HOOK & LINE OR POT GEAR IN THE BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS MANAGEMENT AREA

The National Marine Fisheries service (NMFS) is reallocating projected unused amounts of Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) Pacific cod from trawl catcher/processors and trawl catcher vessels to vessels using hook-and-line or pot gear according to Steven Pennoyer, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.

The following table summarizes the reallocation in metric tons:

______________________________________________________________
                    CURRENT SHARE    THESE ACTIONS  REVISED SHARE
BSAI
Pacific cod 
   Jig gear                 475            none            475
     Hook and Line/Pot  
       gear
                         91,300          +4,000         95,300
     Trawl gear         
	  catcher/processors 
                         33,475          -2,000         31,475
	  catcher vessels 	
                         38,475          -2,000         36,475                           
                        _______          ______        _______ 
Total  TAC              163,725                        163,725


This information bulletin provides of a regulatory change. Do not rely upon it to guide you in complying with the regulatory change.





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