• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:50:05.000+00:00

Vessel (at-sea) production reports are mandatory reports submitted by catcher/processors and motherships that are issued a Federal Fishing Permit. These reports document groundfish production in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:49:04.000+00:00

The industry report submitted by processing facilities, including shoreside processors, stationary floating processors, catcher/processors and motherships, documenting catcher vessel groundfish,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:48:08.000+00:00

Shoreside production reports are mandatory reports submitted by shoreside and stationary floating processors that receive groundfish from federally permitted catcher vessels. These reports...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:55:17.000+00:00

Beginning in 2014, the the halibut Catch Sharing Plan (CSP) authorizes annual transfers of commercial halibut IFQ as guided angler fish (GAF) to charter halibut permit holders for harvest in the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:54:16.000+00:00

Standard prices are generated for cost recovery programs in the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) halibut and sablefish, BSAI Rationalized crab, and Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program fisheries...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:52:18.000+00:00

Logbooks are the industry reports submitted by vessels documenting fishing activity. In particular, these reports provide haul specific information, gear, fishing depth specifics, and vessel...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:47:07.000+00:00

The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program allocates a percentage of all Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands quotas for groundfish, prohibited species, halibut, and crab to eligible...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:46:11.000+00:00

The Blend was the system used by the NMFS Alaska Regional Office to monitor groundfish catch from 1991 until 2002. The Blend system combined data from industry production reports and observer...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-12T21:51:09.000+00:00

The Catch Accounting System (CAS) creates total catch estimates for the groundfish fisheries in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Each year, quotas are established in the CAS...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:16.000+00:00

NMFS is mandated by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to measure and report on the effects of commercial fisheries on marine mammal stocks. One of the ways NMFS gathers this information is...

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• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land cover grid data set is based on a supervised multi-spectral image analysis of Landsat TM5 and TM7 data, supported by field data, modeling, review of aerial photography, interim product...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:00

Spatial management files combine all related and relevant spatial management files into an integrated fisheries management file. Overlaps of the redundant spatial restrictions were removed by...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

This database represents a summary of information on stranded marine mammals reported to NMFS throughout the State of Alaska in fulfillment of Title IV of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. These...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A federal Scallop License Limitation Program (SLLP) license is required onboard any vessel deployed in scallop fisheries in Federal waters off Alaska (except for some diving operations). The SLLP...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

NMFS is mandated by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to collect reports of marine mammal stranding events. This particular catalogue item is specific to the endangered Cook Inlet beluga...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-07-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) maps depict the area of EFH for each life stage of fish managed under a Fishery Management Plan within the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Arctic....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

As of January 1, 2000 a Federal License Limitation Program (LLP) license is required for vessels participating in directed fishing for LLP groundfish species in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A Raster having 20 m resolution with decimal values was assembled from 18.6 billion bathymetric soundings that were obtained from the National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI)...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) maps depict the area of EFH for each life stage of fish managed under a Fishery Management Plan within the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands. EFH...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-09-02T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Catch-In-Areas database integrates catch data from the Catch Accounting System (which has the spatial resolution of a NMFS Reporting Area) into a database that resolves the GIS data into...

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