North Pacific Fishery Management Council

http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/

Develops fishery management plans and makes ongoing decisions regarding federally managed fisheries out to 200 miles from shore. NPFMC is advisory to the National Marine Fisheries Service. Both operate under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The NPFMC meets five times a year, usually three times in Anchorage, once in an Alaskan fishing community, and once in either Seattle or Portland.

• NPFMC meeting schedule
• Description of the northern Bering Sea research area (NBSRA)
• Draft NBSRA schedule
  

National Marine Fisheries Service 

http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/

Federal agency responsible for managing U.S. fisheries and complying with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act. NMFS approves decisions made by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

• Final rule on northern bottom trawl boundary and northern Bering Sea Research Area
  (73 FR 43362, July 25, 2008): http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/frules/73fr43362.pdf
• Other documents as they are available

Bering Sea scientists

• Reports from the R/V Healy - http://bsierp.nprb.org/index.htm
  (click on “Field Notes” for reports from the research vessel Healy)
  
• North Pacific Research Board - http://www.nprb.org/
• Sea ice conditions -  http://bsierp.nprb.org/index.htm
  (click on “Bering Sea Conditions Right Now” for today’s sea ice conditions)
• National Ice & Snow Data Center - http://nsidc.org/
  (click on “Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis”)