Rule 18 Apr 2025 regulatory compliance, fisheries, alaska, fishing industry, noaa, shortraker rockfish

🎣New Regulation on Shortraker Rockfish for Alaska Fisheries

NMFS is prohibiting retention of shortraker rockfish in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) except by catcher/ processors checked-in to the Central GOA Rockfish Program who are fishing with a rockfish cooperative quota permit. This action is necessary because the 2025 total allowable catch of shortraker rockfish for vessels other than these catcher/processors has been reached.

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