INFORMATION BULLETIN (02-92)         November 20, 2002     
   Sustainable Fisheries Division        3:30 p.m.              
   907-586-7228                           
                                
                                
        NMFS REALLOCATES PACIFIC COD FROM VESSELS USING
            TRAWL AND POT GEAR TO CATCHER/PROCESSOR 
                VESSELS USING HOOK-AND-LINE GEAR
             IN THE BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

The National Marine Fisheries service (NMFS) is reallocating
4,500 metric tons (mt) of Pacific cod from vessels using trawl
gear and 3,500 mt of Pacific cod from vessels using pot gear
to catcher/processor vessels using hook-and-line gear in the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area 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
  Hook and Line gear
     Catcher Processor  81,920          + 8,000        89,920
  Pot gear              17,535          - 3,500        14,035

Trawl gear
  catcher/processors    40,475          - 3,500        36,975
  catcher vessels       42,475          - 1,000        41,475


This action is necessary to allow the 2002 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.