Policy analysis evaluates spatial management updates in Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries, indicating aligned habitat protections under a designated Groundfish Exclusion Area.
This Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis/Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Analysis (EA/RIR/RFAA/MSA) analyzes a management measure that applies exclusively to the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery. Specifically, this management measure removes the Cordell Bank Groundfish Conservation Area for all groundfish fisheries and implements a new Groundfish Exclusion Area for all groundfish fisheries within the same footprint as the Cordell Bank (50 fm isobath) bottom contact Essential Fish Habitat Conservation Area.
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United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region (2026) studied this question.
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