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BSAI Crab

October 20, 2021

Approval of the SAFE report and 2021/22 OFL and ABC The Council approved the Final 2021 BSAI Crab SAFE report and specified OFLs and ABCs for eastern Bering Sea (EBS) snow crab, Bristol Bay red king crab, EBS Tanner crab, Saint Matthew blue king crab and Pribilof Island red king crab for the 2021/2022 fishing… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, October 2021

BSAI Crab

June 18, 2021

The Council specified OFLs and ABCs for Aleutian Islands golden king crab (AIGKC) and Pribilof Islands blue king crab (PIBKC) and accepted the updated BSAI Crab SAFE chapters for those stocks. The Council also reviewed model scenarios for Eastern Bering Sea snow crab, Bristol Bay red king crab, and Eastern Bering Sea Tanner crab and… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, June 2021

BSAI Crab

February 13, 2021

Norton Sound Red King Crab OFL/ABC for 2021 and January Crab Plan Team Meeting Report The Council received an overview of the 2021 stock assessment for Norton Sound red king crab (NSRKC) as well as other issues addressed at the January 2021 CPT meeting. For NSRKC, the SSC recommended increasing the buffer for ABC in… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, February 2019

BSAI Crab Specifications

October 20, 2020

Graph showing crab stocks

Approval of the SAFE and 2020/2021 OFL/ABC The Council approved the Final 2020 BSAI Crab SAFE and specified OFLs and ABCs for EBS snow crab, Bristol Bay red king crab, EBS Tanner crab, Saint Matthew blue king crab and Pribilof Island blue king crab for the 2020/21 fishing season. The Council took this action following… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, October 2020

BSAI Crab Management

June 15, 2020

The Council approved OFLs and ABCs for Aleutian Islands golden king crab, Pribilof Islands golden king crab, and Western Aleutian Islands red king crab, and reviewed stock assessment scenarios and other issues addressed at the Crab Plan Team’s May 2020 meeting. For AI golden king crab specifications, the Council adopted an OFL of 4,798 mt… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, GKC, June 2020

St Matthew Island Blue King Crab Rebuilding

June 15, 2020

The Council took final action to adopt a rebuilding plan for St Matthew Island blue king crab and recommend a preferred alternative for Secretarial Action (Alternative 2/Option 2) that is projected to rebuild the stock within the time required under the Magnuson-Stevens Act’s National Standard 1, while also providing affected communities with the possibility of… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, June 2020, SMBKC

Norton Sound Red King Crab

February 5, 2020

At this meeting, the Council specified 2020 overfishing and acceptable biological catch levels for Norton Sound red king crab (NSRKC). Dr. Martin Dorn, Co-Chair of the Crab Plan Team (CPT), presented the SSC, AP, and Council with an overview of the 2020 stock assessment for NSRKC as well as other issues addressed at the January… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, February 2020

BSAI Crab Management

June 13, 2019

The Council approved 2019/2020 fishing year OFLs and ABCs for the Aleutian Islands golden king crab and Pribilof Islands blue king crab stocks, and reviewed summaries and SSC comments for stock assessment scenarios and other issues addressed at the Crab Plan Team’s May 2019 meeting. The Council also reviewed issues related to rebuilding the St.… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, Crab, Crab specifications, June 2019

BSAI Crab Management

February 15, 2019

The Council reviewed the BSAI Crab Plan Team’s (CPT) report and the 2019 Norton Sound red king crab (NSRKC) stock assessment. The Council made a preliminary determination to approve the NSRKC SAFE report chapter as well as the SSC recommendation that 2019 OFL be set at 0.24 million lb. (0.11 thousand t) and that ABC… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, February 2019

Partial Deliveries in BSAI Crab Rationalization Fisheries

February 15, 2019

At the February 2019 meeting, the Council initiated an analysis to allow vessels participating in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab Rationalization (CR) Program to make partial deliveries of crab and then continue fishing before fully offloading all harvested crab. The action would be to remove Federal regulations that prohibit the continuation of… Read More →

Tagged With: BSAI Crab, February 2019

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