Table 1.  Species categories established for management
of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands groundfish fishery.
Prohibited Species 1

FINFISHES

 Target Species 2

 Other Species 3

 Forage Fish
Salmon
Pacific halibut
Pacific herring
Steelhead trout		 Walleye pollock
Pacific cod
Yellowfin sole
Greenland turbot
Arrowtooth flounder
Rock sole
Flathead sole
Other flatfish
Sablefish
Pacific ocean perch
Other red rockfish
Other rockfish		 Sculpins
Sharks
Skates
Smelt		 Eulachon
Capelin
Sandlance
Myctophids
Bathylagids
Sandfish
Pholids
Stichaeids
Gonostomatids
INVERTEBRATES

      
King crab
Tanner crab		 Squid Octopus  

1.  Species which must be returned to the sea when caught.
2.  Species for which an individual TAC is established.
3.  Species for which an aggregate TAC is established.
A nonspecified species category is also established to cover all species not listed above.

 

 

 

 

Table 2.  Summary of stock abundance (biomass), overfishing level (OFL), acceptable biological catch (ABC), the fishing mortality rate corresponding to ABC (FOFL ), and the fishing mortality rate corresponding to OFL (FABC ) for the eastern Bering Sea (EBS), Aleutian Islands (AI), and Bogoslof district as projected for 2001.  “Biomass” corresponds to projected January 2001 abundance for the age+ range reported in the summary section.  Biomass, OFL, and ABC are in metric tons, reported to three significant digits.  Fs are reported to two significant digits.
  
Species or Species Complex Area Biomass OFL ABC FOFL   FABC  
Walleye pollock EBS 10,060,000 2,350,000 1,842,000 0.80   0.49  
Walleye pollock AI 106,000 31,700 23,800 0.20   0.15  
Walleye pollock Bogoslof 300,000 60,200 45,200 0.20   0.15  
Pacific cod BSAI 1,320,000 248,000 188,000 0.32   0.28  
Yellowfin sole BSAI 2,380,000 209,000 176,000 0.13   0.11  
Greenland turbot BSAI 210,000 31,000 8,400 0.32   0.064  
Arrowtooth flounder BSAI 701,000 141,500 117,000 0.28   0.23  
Rock sole BSAI 1,940,000 271,000 228,000 0.19   0.16  
Flathead sole BSAI 618,000 102,000 84,000 0.38   0.30  
Other flatfish BSAI 865,000 147,000 122,000 0.36 a 0.29 a
Sablefish EBS 20,000 1,910 1,560 0.12   0.10  
Sablefish AI 38,000 3,070 2,500 0.12   0.10  
Pacific ocean perch EBS 41,000 2,040 1,730 0.048   0.040  
Pacific ocean perch AI 191,000 11,800 10,200 0.069   0.059  
Northern rockfish BSAI 150,000 9,020 6,760 0.060   0.045 b
Rougheye rockfish BSAI 14,000 349 262 0.025   0.019 b
Shortraker rockfish BSAI 34,000 1,020 766 0.030   0.023 b
Other rockfish EBS 6,880 482 361 0.073 c 0.054 c
Other rockfish AI 12,900 901 676 0.073 c 0.054 c
Atka mackerel BSAI 553,000 138,000 58,700 0.42   0.19  
Squid BSAI n/a 2,620 1,970 n/a   n/a  
Other species BSAI 567,000 113,000 26,500 0.12   0.044  
TOTAL   20,127,78 3,881,262 2,946,385        

a. Alaska plaice rate shown as an example.
b. previously combined into other red rockfish complex.
c. Weighted average of species-specific rates.

 

 

 

 

Table 3.  Maximum permissible fishing mortality rates and ABCs as defined in Amendment 56 to the GOA and BSAI Groundfish FMPs, and the 2001 Plan Team recommended fishing mortality rates and ABCs, for those species whose recommendations were below the maximum.
  
Gulf of Alaska   2001
Max. Permissible		 2001
Max. Permissible		 2001 2001

       Species

 Tier FABC ABC FABC ABC
Pacific cod 3a 0.37 76,700 0.33 67,800
Rougheye rockfish 4 0.032 1,550 0.025 1,210
Shortraker rockfish 5 0.023 520 0.023 520
Total Shortraker/Rougheye 4,5   2,070   1,730
Other slope rockfish (sharpchin) 3a 0.055 1,980 0.050 1,800
Other slope rockfish (redstripe) 5 0.075 1,240 0.075 1,240
Other slope rockfish (harlequin) 5 0.045 560 0.045 560
Other slope rockfish (silvergrey) 5 0.030 780 0.030 780
Other slope rockfish (redbanded) 5 0.045 290 0.045 290
Other slope rockfish (minor species) 5 0.045 220 0.045 220
Total other slope rockfish 4,5   5,070   4,900
Pelagic shelf rockfish 4 0.110 7,310 0.090 5,980
Demersal shelf rockfish 4 0.025 420 0.020 330
Atka mackerel 6 NA 4,700 NA 600
      103,410   87,960