# Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2001-03-07 · Effective 2001-04-06 · 66 FR 13672
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-5558
- **Category:** catch-limit
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 13672
- **Publication date:** 2001-03-07
- **Effective date:** 2001-04-06
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No. 000629198-1038-02
## Abstract

NMFS issues a final rule implementing Amendment 66 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (FMP) and defining directed fishing for pollock CDQ. Amendment 66 removes the allocation of squid to the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program to prevent the catch of squid from limiting the catch of pollock CDQ. The regulatory amendment defining directed fishing for pollock CDQ implements the intent of the American Fisheries Act (AFA) that only pollock caught while directed fishing for pollock CDQ accrue against the pollock CDQ allocation. Pollock caught incidentally in other groundfish CDQ fisheries will accrue against the pollock incidental catch allowance (ICA) established under the AFA. In addition, this definition allows NMFS to enforce closures to directed fishing for pollock CDQ in areas such as Steller Sea Lion conservation area or the Chinook Salmon Savings Area. This action is necessary to implement Amendment 66 and the CDQ Program-related provisions of the AFA. NMFS expects it to further the goals and objectives of the FMP.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/03/07/01-5558/fisheries-of-the-exclusive-economic-zone-off-alaska-western-alaska-community-development-quota)
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