Alaska American Fisheries Act Permits

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, requests extension of this currently approved information collection. This information collection contains applications for permits and transfers necessary for NMFS to manage the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock fishery under the American Fisheries Act. The AFA established sector allocations in the BSAI pollock fishery, determined eligible vessels and processors, allowed the formation of cooperatives, set limits on the participation of AFA vessels in other fisheries, and imposed special catch weighing and monitoring requirements on AFA vessels. Minor editorial changes have been made to the forms to increase clarity and to increase consistency with the region’s other forms. Two applications—the Application for Approval as an Entity to Receive Transferable Chinook Salmon PSC Allocation and the Application for Transfer of Bering Sea Chinook Salmon PSC Allocations—are now only submitted electronically. This does not change the burden for these applications.

The latest form for Alaska American Fisheries Act Permits expires 2026-11-30 and can be found here.

Application for AFA Inshore Catcher Vessel Cooperative Permit

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