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 and the Alexander
Archipelago of Southeast Alaska), 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
Adjustments: There is a
correction that adds 200 responses and 17 hours for the
non-electronic tags that should have been counted in 2009, that
would have made the total 657 (up from 457) non-electric tag
returns and 55 hours (up from 38). Also, we are now counting all
returns, not attempting to separate out those returned by
fishermen. This adds another 223 non-archival tag returns, adding
19 hours. There was also a slight increase to the electronic tag
return, of 10 returns, adding 3 hours, for a total of 5 hours.
$68,000
No
No
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Uncollected
John Clary 2065254039
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