INFORMATION BULLETIN (04-95)                                             October 14, 2004   
 Sustainable Fisheries Division                                           3:30 p.m.               
 907-586-7228                           
                                
                                
        NMFS REALLOCATES PACIFIC COD FROM VESSELS USING
               TRAWL AND JIG GEAR TO VESSELS USING
                   HOOK-AND-LINE AND POT GEAR
             IN THE BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is reallocating 12,700 metric tons (mt) of Pacific
cod from vessels using trawl gear to vessels using pot gear and catcher processor vessels using
hook-and-line gear.  NMFS is also reallocating 2,000 mt of Pacific cod from vessels using jig
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

Pacific cod
Hook and Line gear 
     Catcher Processor           80,930               + 14,065          94,995
Pot gear                                                            
      Catcher Processor           3,338               +    114           3,452
      Catcher Vessel             15,174               +    521          15,695
Jig gear                          2,442               -  2,000             442
Trawl gear
     Catcher Processor           46,844               -  5,700          41,144
     Catcher Vessel              46,844               -  7,000          39,844

This action is necessary to allow the 2004 total allowable catch 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.