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. Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska Pollock 3rd MSC Re-assessment Announcement Comment Draft Report May 16, 2019 Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) MRAG Americas, Inc. Erin Wilson (team leader), Amanda Stern-Pirlot, Jodi Bostrom, Don Bowen, Assessment team Jake Rice, Paul Knapman Fishery client At-Sea Processors Association Assessment Type 3rd Re-assessment 1 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pollock ACDR MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 Document Control Record Document Draft Submitted By Date Reviewed By Date ACDR EW, JR, DB, JB 13 May 2019 ASP 14 May 2019 2 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pollock ACDR MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 1 Contents 1 Contents .......................................................................................................... 3 2 Glossary .......................................................................................................... 5 3 Executive summary ......................................................................................... 5 3.1 Changes since previous assessment ........................................................................ 5 3.1.1 Principle 1 ........................................................................................................................ 5 3.1.2 Principle 2 ........................................................................................................................ 5 3.1.3 Principle 3 ........................................................................................................................ 5 4 Report details .................................................................................................. 6 4.1 Authorship and peer review details ............................................................................ 6 4.2 Version details ........................................................................................................... 7 5 Unit(s) of Assessment and Certification and results overview ......................... 8 5.1 Unit(s) of Assessment and Unit(s) of Certification ..................................................... 8 5.1.1 Unit(s) of Assessment ..................................................................................................... 8 5.1.2 Unit(s) of Certification ...................................................................................................... 8 5.1.3 Scope of assessment in relation to enhanced or introduced fisheries ............................ 9 5.2 Assessment results overview..................................................................................... 9 5.2.1 Determination, formal conclusion and agreement .......................................................... 9 5.2.2 Principle level scores....................................................................................................... 9 5.2.3 Summary of conditions .................................................................................................. 10 5.2.4 Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 10 6 Traceability and eligibility .............................................................................. 10 6.1 Eligibility date ........................................................................................................... 10 6.2 Traceability within the fishery ................................................................................... 10 6.3 Eligibility to enter further chains of custody ............................................................. 12 6.4 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practicably Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) to enter further chains of custody 13 7 Scoring .......................................................................................................... 13 7.1 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores ..................................................... 13 7.2 Principle 1 ................................................................................................................ 14 7.2.1 Principle 1 background .................................................................................................. 14 7.2.2 Catch profiles ................................................................................................................ 15 7.2.3 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data ................................................................ 17 7.2.4 Principle 1 Performance Indicator scores and rationales .............................................. 18 ............................................................................................................. 18 ....................................................................................................... 20 ...................................................................................................... 22 ................................................................................ 27 ...................................................................................... 31 ..................................................................................... 35 7.3 Principle 2 ............................................................................................................... 40 3 MRAG Americas – US1913 BSAI & GOA Pollock ACDR MRAG-MSC-F28-v2.01 March 2019 7.3.1 BSAI ecosystem ............................................................................................................ 40 7.3.2 GOA ecosystem ............................................................................................................ 40 7.3.3 Primary and secondary species .................................................................................... 41 7.3.4 ETP species .................................................................................................................. 51 7.3.5 Habitats ......................................................................................................................... 66 7.3.6 Ecosystem ..................................................................................................................... 69 7.3.7 Scoring elements ........................................................................................................... 69 7.3.8 Principle 2 Performance Indicator scores and rationales....................................... 72 ........................................................................................ 72 ................................................................... 74 .................................................................................... 76 ................................................................................... 78 .............................................................. 80 ............................................................................... 82 ............................................................................................. 84 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................................................................................................ 137 9.1.2 Small-scale fisheries ................................................................................................... 137 9.2 Evaluation processes and techniques ................................................................... 138 9.2.1 Site visits ..................................................................................................................... 138 9.2.2 Stakeholder