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INFORMATION BULLETIN (99-138)
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228 		October 15, 1999
3:15 p.m.


NMFS REALLOCATES POLLOCK FROM THE INCIDENTAL BYCATCH ACCOUNT TO THE DIRECTED FISHERIES FOR POLLOCK IN THE BERING SEA SUBAREA

The National Marine Fisheries service (NMFS) is reallocating the projected unused amount (2,000 metric tons (mt)) of Bering Sea subarea (BS) pollock from the incidental catch account to the directed fisheries according to Steven Pennoyer, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.

The following table summarizes the reallocation in metric tons: 

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Bering Sea C season (B/C season for motherships) pollock fishery
                    CURRENT ALLOWANCE  THIS ACTION  REVISED AMOUT
Inshore component
	catcher vessels   125,885        +1,000      126,885
     
Offshore component
	
	Catcher/processors
                           92,148          +732       92,880
	8.5% for catcher vessels
                            8,560           +68        8,628    
     Mothership
	catcher vessels 
                            50,354          +200       50,554
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This information bulletin provides notice of a regulatory change. Do not rely upon it to guide you in complying with the regulatory change.





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