Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Trip Limit Adjustments

NMFS announces changes to the restrictions to the Pacific Coast groundfish limited entry and open access fisheries to clarify landings restrictions north and south of Cape Mendocino, California; in the limited entry fisheries to clarify the canary rockfish cumulative landings limit south of Cape Mendocino; in the open access fisheries, to revise trip limits for Sebastes complex species, including yellowtail rockfish, canary rockfish, black rockfish, blue rockfish; revises the trip limits in the pink shrimp exempted trawl open access fishery for overall groundfish, Dover sole, whiting, and sablefish landings; and provides three technical corrections to the annual specifications and management measures. These restrictions are intended to clarify some of the restrictions within the 1999 annual management measures and to extend the fisheries as long as possible during the year while keeping landings within the 1999 optimum yields (OYs) and allocations for these species.