26:04 - 26:19
“We would be looking at allowing donations of up to 5,000 net pounds from the Northern Glacier only, and only when she's participating in that Bering Sea Yellowfin Sole, TLAS, fishery.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 26:04 – 26:19
- Transcript
- NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
So what does this EFP do? I think as Ms. Harrington described in her presentation, it is a limited test— the logistics, the accounting, the monitoring, and the enforcement of what it would take to allow limited donations from one single trawl catcher vessel— trawl catcher processor— that is the Northern Glacier Northern Glacier. She operates in the multi-species CDQ program and then for purposes of this EFP in the Bering Sea yellowfin sole trawl limited access fishery. We would be looking at allowing donations of up to 5,000 net pounds from the Northern Glacier only and only when she's participating in that Bering Sea yellowfin sole TLAS fishery.
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