# Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Foreign Fishing; Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Annual Specifications and Management Measures
> **Rule** · Emergency rule; 2000 groundfish fishery specifications and management measures; request for comments. · Published 2000-01-04 · Effective 2000-01-01 · 65 FR 221
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-33966
- **Category:** catch-limit
- **Region:** west coast
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 221
- **Publication date:** 2000-01-04
- **Effective date:** 2000-01-01
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No. 991223347-9347-01
## Abstract

NMFS announces the 2000 fishery specifications and management measures for groundfish taken in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and state waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, as authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The specifications include the levels of the acceptable biological catch (ABC) and optimum yields (OYs), including the distribution between domestic and foreign fishing operations. The commercial OYs (the OYs reduced by amounts expected to be taken in tribal, recreational, and compensation fisheries) are allocated between the limited entry and open access fisheries. The management measures for 2000 are designed to keep landings within the OYs for those species for which there are OYs and to achieve the goals and objectives of the FMP, consistent with the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the implementing national guidelines published in the Federal Register on May 1, 1998. The intended effect of these actions is to prevent overfishing and rebuild Pacific Coast groundfish stocks that are overfished and, for healthier stocks, to establish allowable harvest levels and implement management measures designed to achieve as much of those harvest levels as possible, while achieving the conservation requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/01/04/99-33966/magnuson-stevens-act-provisions-foreign-fishing-fisheries-off-west-coast-states-and-in-the-western)
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