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Appendix G: Glossary
Pages 208-215

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... The act established village corporations and regional corporations designed to conduct business operations from the initial settlement on behalf of native shareholders. APICDA (Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association)
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... CDQ (Community Development Quota) : A program in western Alaska under which a percentage of the total allowable catch of Bering Sea commercial fisher
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... These villages cannot have previously developed harvesting or processing capacity capable of substantial participation in the Bering Sea fisheries in order to qualify for the program. Currently, the CDQ program allocates 7.5 percent of the total allowable catch in the pollock, halibut and sablefish, crab, and groundfish fisheries to the Community Development Quota Program.
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From page 211...
... fishery management council: Eight regional fishery management councils are mandated in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to be responsible for developing fishery management plans for fisheries in federal waters. Councils are composed of voting members from NMFS, state fishery managers, and individuals selected by governors of the coastal states.
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From page 212...
... IFQ (individual fishing quota) : Fishery management tool used in the Alaska halibut and sablefish fisheries and in other fisheries that allocates a certain portion of the TAC to individual vessels or fishermen based on initial qualifying criteria.
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... MSFCMA (Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) : Federal legislation responsible for establishing the fishery management councils and the mandatory and discretionary guidelines for federal fishery management plans.
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... : Potential fishery agreement between the State of Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the uninhabited U.S. territories in the western Pacific, and foreign fishing nations.
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... WPRFMC (Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council) : One of eight regional councils mandated in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to develop management plans for fisheries in federal waters off of the state of Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and uninhabited territories in the Western Pacific.
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Key Terms

  • community development
  • northern mariana
  • mariana islands
  • development quota
  • fishery conservation

  • management act
  • bering sea
  • north pacific
  • western pacific
  • quota association

  • association composed
  • federal waters
  • american samoa
  • management councils
  • management council

  • management plans
  • individuals selected
  • allowable catch
  • state fishery
  • regional fishery

  • regional councils
  • eight regional
  • hawaiian islands
  • total allowable
  • fishery managers

  • coastal villages
  • settlement act
  • development corporation
  • advisory body
  • marine fisheries


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