Bering Sea Salmon Bycatch Management Environmental Impact Statement

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NOAA Fisheries, in consultation with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on salmon bycatch reduction measures in the Bering Sea, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The proposed action is to manage salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery in compliance with the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The proposed action would replace the current Chinook and Chum Salmon Savings Areas in the Bering Sea with new regulatory closures, salmon bycatch limits, or a combination of both. These management measures could incorporate current or new bycatch reduction methods. The scope of the EIS will be to determine the impacts to the human environment resulting from these salmon bycatch reduction measures.
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