Amendment 80, implemented in 2008, allocates BSAI yellowfin sole, flathead sole, rock sole, Atka mackerel, and Aleutian Islands Pacific ocean perch to the head and gut trawl catcher processor sector, and allows qualified vessels to form cooperatives. The program establishes GOA groundfish sideboard limits for pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish, as well as GOA halibut PSC. GOA sideboard restrictions are based on historic participation during 1998-2004. In addition, participation in the GOA flatfish fishery is prohibited for vessels with less than 10 weeks of history in the GOA flatfish fisheries. One vessel is exempt from the GOA halibut PSC sideboard limits, having fished 80% of its weeks in the GOA flatfish fisheries from 2000 through 2003. More cooperative reports can be found here.
Staff contact is Jon McCracken: 907-271-1282.
Newsletter Articles
- Cooperative Reports (4/12/2018)
- Co-op Reporting (4/17/2017)
- BSAI Yellowfin Sole Trawl Limited Access Entry (2/14/2017)
Documents and Council Motions
- Amendment 80 Halibut PSC Management 12/15; Alaska Seafood Cooperative halibut mortality performance, Amendment 80 sector effects of the Halibut Avoidance Plan, Alaska Groundfish Cooperative halibut performance plan
- Public review BSAI Flatfish Specifications Flexibility 4/13
- Amendment 80 Cooperative Reports:Alaska Seafood, Alaska Groundfish 4/13
- BS Flatfish Specification motion and revised alternatives 2/13
- Initial review of BSAI Flatfish Specifications Flexibility 2/13
- Am80 Replacement with AFA motion 10/12
- Trawl Catcher /Processor Vessel Replacement discussion paper 10/12
- BSAI Flatfish Specification Flexibility discussion paper 6/12
- Greenland Turbot discussion paper 6/12
- Comprehensive GOA Halibut PSC discussion paper 6/12
- Flatfish Specification Flexibility 2/12
- Am80 GOA sideboards; Am80 Management of Flatfish – 2/11
- Adjusting 3rd Qtr Halibut PSC sideboards for Am80 vessels EA – 10/08
- Am80 Vessel Replacement Provisions Discussion Paper – 10/08
- Am80 sector cooperative criteria motion – 6/08
- Am80 Post delivery transfers and rollovers motion – 4/08
- AM80 Post-delivery Transfers Discussion paper; Gulf Latent LLPs discussion paper – 10/07
- IRIU Am80 motion 6/06
- IRIU Am80, appendices Errata 5/25/06
- IRIU Am80 – 6/06
- BSAI Am80 Council Motion – 4/06
- IRIU Am80 Motion – 2/06
- Halibut PSC Allocations under BSAI Am80 and Am85 – 2/06
- Am80 IRIU EA – 2/06
