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MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 8950 Martin Luther King Jr. Street N. #202 St. Petersburg, Florida 33702-2211 Tel: (727) 563-9070 Fax: (727) 563-0207 Email: [email protected] President: Andrew A. Rosenberg, Ph.D. BSAI and GOA Pacific Cod MSC Reassessment Final Report and Determination Certificate Numbers: MSC-F-31192 and MSC- F-31193 (MRAG -F-0070 and MRAG-F-0071) November 19th, 2020 Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) MRAG Americas, Inc. Assessment team Erin Wilson (Team Leader), Jake Rice, Paul Knapman, Don Bowen Fishery client Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation Assessment Type 2nd Re-assessment 1 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pacific cod fishery FRD MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 Document Control Record Document Draft Submitted By Date Reviewed By Date ACDR EW, JB, PK, JR, 5/15/19 Amanda Stern-Pirlot 5/15/19 WDB CDR/PRDR EW, PK, JR, WDB 12/17/19 ASP 30 Dec 2019 PCDR EW, PK, JR, WDB Jan 30, 2020 ASP 6 March 2020 FRD EW, PK, JR, WDB October 14, 2020 GP 13 November 2020 2 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pacific cod fishery FRD MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 Contents Contents..................................................................................................................... 3 Glossary of Abbreviations ............................................................................... 7 Executive summary ......................................................................................... 9 Changes since previous assessment ........................................................................ 9 Report details ................................................................................................ 11 Authorship and peer review details .......................................................................... 11 Peer Reviewers ........................................................................................................ 12 RBF .......................................................................................................................... 13 Version details ......................................................................................................... 13 Unit(s) of Assessment and Certification and results overview ....................... 14 Unit(s) of Assessment and Unit(s) of Certification ................................................... 14 Unit(s) of Assessment ................................................................................................... 14 Unit(s) of Certification .................................................................................................... 17 Scope of assessment in relation to enhanced or introduced fisheries – ....................... 17 Assessment results overview .................................................................................. 17 Determination, formal conclusion and agreement ........................................................ 17 Principle level scores ..................................................................................................... 17 Summary of conditions .................................................................................................. 18 Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 18 Traceability and eligibility .............................................................................. 18 Eligibility date ........................................................................................................... 18 Traceability within the fishery ................................................................................... 18 Eligibility to enter further chains of custody ............................................................. 20 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practicably Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) to enter further chains of custody 21 Scoring .......................................................................................................... 21 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores ..................................................... 21 Principle 1 ................................................................................................................ 24 Principle 1 background .................................................................................................. 24 Stock Assessment and Status ...................................................................................... 29 Catch profiles ................................................................................................................ 35 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data ................................................................ 37 Principle 1 Performance Indicator scores and rationales.............................................. 40 ............................................................................................................. 41 ....................................................................................................... 44 ...................................................................................................... 46 ...................................................................................... 56 ..................................................................................... 60 Principle 2 ................................................................................................................ 65 BSAI ecosystem ............................................................................................................ 65 3 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pacific cod fishery FRD MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 GOA ecosystem ............................................................................................................ 66 Primary and secondary species .................................................................................... 66 ETP species ................................................................................................................ 114 Habitats ....................................................................................................................... 125 Ecosystem ................................................................................................................... 130 Principle 2 Performance Indicator scores and rationales............................................ 132 ...................................................................................... 132 ................................................................. 136 ................................................................................. 141 ............................................................................. 147 ........................................................................................... 149 ...................................................................... 154 ....................................................................................... 157 .................................................................................................. 159 ............................................................................. 163 .............................................................................................. 168 ......................................................................... 169 .......................................................................................... 171 Principle 3 .............................................................................................................. 174 Management System Background .............................................................................. 174 Principle 3 Performance Indicator scores and rationales............................................ 192 ....................................................................... 192 ................................................................. 197 ............................................................................................. 200 .................................................................................... 202 .................................................................................. 204 ............................................................................... 209 .......................................... 214 References .................................................................................................. 216 Appendices ................................................................................................. 225 Previous assessments ........................................................................................... 225 Evaluation processes and techniques ................................................................... 225 Site visits ..................................................................................................................... 225 Stakeholder participation ............................................................................................. 229 Evaluation techniques ................................................................................................. 229 Peer Review reports .............................................................................................. 231 Stakeholder input ................................................................................................... 242 Conditions .............................................................................................................. 253 Client Action Plan ..................................................................................................