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RIN: 0648-AY33

Publication ID: Fall 2010

Title: Amendment 34 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs
Abstract: Amendment 34 to the FMP would amend the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program to exempt additional fishery participants from harvest limits, called sideboards, which apply to some vessels that participate in Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries. Amendment 34 would revise the criteria that enable some vessels to operate exempt from sideboards in the Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod fishery. Amendment 34 would also establish criteria to enable certain vessels to operate exempt from sideboards in the Gulf of Alaska pollock fishery. The current sideboards impose an economic burden on some fishery participants that received relatively small amounts of quota share in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program and are dependent on Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod or pollock fisheries. This action is intended to promote the goals of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the FMP, and other applicable laws.
Agency: Department of Commerce(DOC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 680
Legal Authority: 16 USC 1862

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	02/00/2011

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: Businesses	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: James Balisger Regional Administrator Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NMFS, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802 Phone:907 586-7221 Fax:907 586-7249 Email: james.balsiger@noaa.gov