The Groundfish Tagging Program provides scientists with information necessary for effective conservation, management, and scientific understanding of the groundfish fishery off Alaska and the Northwest Pacific. The program area includes the Pacific Ocean off Alaska (the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area, the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska), California, Oregon, and Washington. Distribution, movement rates and direction, growth, recruitment and mortality estimated from tag recoveries are important parameters used in groundfish population assessment models and in developing allocation systems.
PL:
Pub.L. 94 - 265 303
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
An adjustment has been made to reflect: 1) an increasing majority of tag returns being handled by NMFS researchers in the field or by NMFS observers aboard fishing vessels or stationed at seafood processing plants, and 2)a decreasing numbers of sablefish tag returns. NOTE: there appears to be an $10 increase in costs, which is simply an artifact of costs being rounded down to zero when the collection was migrated to ROCIS.
$24,200
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
No
Uncollected
John Clary 2065254039
No
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(ii) Use of information;
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0276 ss ren 071409rev.pdf
Groundfish Tagging Program - Simple tags