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INFORMATION BULLETIN #00-95
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228 		October 27, 2000
2:30 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 9,000 metric tons (mt) of Pacific cod from catcher/processor vessels using trawl gear and 3,000 mt of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to catcher/processor vessels using hook-and-line or vessels using pot gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) according to James W. Balsiger, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.

The following table summarizes the reallocation in metric tons:

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                    	       CURRENT SHARE   THESE ACTIONS   REVISED SHARE
BSAI
Pacific cod 
     Jig gear                   3,571            -3,000            571
     Hook and Line gear   
        (Catcher/Processors)   70,558           +11,400         81,958
     Pot gear                  16,570              +600         17,170
      
                         
     Trawl gear         
       Catcher Processors 
                               41,953           -9,000          32,953
       Catcher Vessels
                               41,953           none            41,953


This action does not imply any change in the status of the fisheries.

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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