About North Pacific Fishery Management Council

North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) is one of eight regional councils established by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1976 to manage fisheries in the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone.

In July 2016, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a Fisheries Allocation Policy Directive, which describes a mechanism to ensure fisheries allocation are periodically evaluated to ensure that optimum yield (OY) is being achieved under current conditions. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has multiple allocations. In order to support the timely review of these allocations the following charts and datasets have been established. This allows analysts to use and update previous information in the same format as previous reviews. The information can also be leveraged by the public and analysts at any time with the up to date information that is included.