Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Flexibility Analysis for Amendments to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAI) and the BSAI Crab FMP to revise the Pribilof Islands Blue King Crab Rebuilding Plan - Proposed Amendments 103 and 43

This Regulatory Impact Review/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (RIR/IRFA) evaluates a suite of spatial closure alternatives, affecting groundfish fisheries, around the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. These alternatives are being proposed to reduce prohibited species catch (PSC) of Pribilof Island Blue King Crab, (PBKC) which is presently in an overfished status, as part of a revised rebuilding plan and in order to enhance the long term sustainability of the PIBKC stock.