INFORMATION BULLETIN #01-90         October 4, 2001       
 Sustainable Fisheries Division      9:00 a.m.               
 907-586-7228


        NMFS REALLOCATES PACIFIC COD FROM VESSELS USING
               TRAWL AND JIG GEAR TO VESSELS USING
                   HOOK-AND-LINE OR POT GEAR
             IN THE BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

The National Marine Fisheries service (NMFS) is reallocating
24,000 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 vessels using hook-and-line or 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               3,478           -3,000           478
  Hook and Line gear   
     Catcher Processor  70,551          +25,270        95,821
     Catcher Vessel        265             +400           665
  Pot gear              16,139           +1,330        17,469

Trawl gear         
  catcher/processors    40,867           -10,000        30,867
  catcher vessels       40,867           -14,000        26,867 

This action is necessary to allow the 2001 TAC of Pacific cod
to be harvested and is issued pursuant to 50 CFR
679.20(a)(7)(ii).  This action does not imply any change in
the status of the fisheries.

This information bulletin only provides notice of a regulatory
change. For the purposes of complying with the regulatory
change, you are advised to see the actual text of the
regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations.