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Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
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Volume I
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Background and Purpose
3.0 Proposed Action
3.1 Clarification of Status Determination Criteria and MSY Control
3.2 Proposed Rebuilding
3.3 Ending Overfishing
3.4 Fishery Program Administration
3.5 Alternatives to Control Capacity
3.6 Management Measures to Address Rebuilding Requirements
3.7 Alternatives to Minimize the Adverse Effects of Fishing on Essential Fish Habitat
3.8 Other Issues
4.0 Alternatives to Proposed Action
4.1 Alternatives Not Selected
4.2 Alternatives Considered But Rejected
5.0 - 5. 1Environmental Impacts/Analytic Approach & Limitations
5.2 Biological Impacts of the Alternatives
5.3 Impacts to Essential Fish Habitat
5.4 Economic Impacts
5.5 Enforcement Impacts
5.6 Social Impact Analysis
5.7 Cumulative Effects
6.0 Data and Research Needs
7.0 Applicable Law
8.0 References
Volume III - Appendices
Appendix I - Report from the Social Impact Informational Meetings
Appendix II - US/Canada Guidance on Options for Determining Resource Shares
Appendix III - Development of a Sharing Allocation Proposal for Transboundary Resources of Cod, Haddock Yellowtail Flounder on Georges Bank
Appendix IV - Northeast Fisheries Science Center Workshop on the Effects of Fishing Gear on Marine Habitats off the Northeastern US
Appendix V - Days at Sea Use Through Fishing Year 2001
Appendix VI - Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank Cod Fisheries in FY 2001
Appendix VII - Gulf of Maine Cod Trip Limit Summaries
Appendix VIII - Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative
Appendix IX - Scoping For the EFH Components of Groundfish Amendment 13 and Scallop Amendment 10
Appendix X - Maps & Coordinates for the Closed Area Habitat Analysis
Appendix XI - Analytical Methods Used to Compare Closed Area Options
Appendix XII - Detailed Data For EFH Metric Analysis For Habitat Alternatives Combined With Amendment 13 Status quo Mortality Closures (Alternatives 1,2,3,4)
Appendix XIII - The Gulf of Maine Inshore Fisheries Conservation and Stewardship Plan of 2002
Appendix XIV - Testing Byatch in an Observer-Based Experimental Shrimp Fishery Conducted in an Area of Higher Groundfish Consentration - This document is too large to post, please contact the Council office for a copy
Appendix XV - Summary of Interim Groundfish Measures Implemented Aug 1, 2002
Appendix XVI - Anlaytic techniques
Appendix XVII - Preliminary Responses to public comments received for the EFH Components of Amendment 13 to the Northeast Multispecies FMP
Appendix XVIII - Report on Market Information and Fisheries Management, By Cathy A. Roheim, Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, Frank Asche and Jung-Sam Lee
Appendix XIX - Analytical Methods Used To Identify Some of the Habitat Closed Area Alternatives (5a-d)
Volume IV - Public Comments - available by contacting the Council Office