Alaska American Fisheries Act Reports

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Region, requests revision and extension of this currently approved information collection. This information collection contains the annual and periodic reporting requirements for American Fisheries Act (AFA) cooperatives. These requirements include reports about on-going fishing operations of the cooperatives and reports focused on efforts to minimize salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. This information is used to manage the Bering Sea pollock fishery, to evaluate the salmon bycatch management measures, and to provide the public with information about how the program operates and information about bycatch reduction under this program. This information collection provides the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and NMFS with information about the organization and fishing operations of the AFA cooperatives, allocations to the AFA cooperatives, and the effectiveness of the Chinook salmon and chum salmon bycatch management measures. This information is necessary to ensure long-term conservation and abundance of salmon and pollock, maintain a healthy marine ecosystem, and provide maximum benefit to fishermen and communities that depend on salmon and pollock. Three changes were made to this collection. The AFA Annual Cooperative Report was removed from this collection because it was added to OMB Control Number 0648-0678 in 2019. The Incentive Plan Agreement (IPA) and the IPA Annual Report were renamed the Bering Sea Pollock Fishery Incentive Plan Agreement (IPA) and the Bering Sea Pollock Fishery IPA Annual Report, respectively, to clarify the fishery these are associated with.

The latest form for Alaska American Fisheries Act Reports expires 2027-07-31 and can be found here.

AFA Annual Cooperative Report

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