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INFORMATION BULLETIN 04-99
Sustainable Fisheries Division
907-586-7228 		November 26, 2004
10:00 a.m.


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

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is reallocating 3,960 metric tons (mt) of Pacific cod from catcher vessels using pot gear to vessels using trawl gear and 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:

PACIFIC COD       

    Current Share   

    These Actions   

    Revised Share   
Hook-and-Line Gear

     Catcher Processor



94,995



+ 2,800



97,795
Pot Gear

     Catcher Vessel



     15,695



     - 3,960



     11,735
Trawl Gear

     Catcher Processor

     Catcher Vessel



     41,144

     39,844



     +    287

     +    873



     41,431

     40,717


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.

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