Amendment 33 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, 2025-26 Harvest Specifications, and Management Measures: Environmental Assessment, Regulatory Impact Review, Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conse

This document is an Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis/Magnuson-Stevens Act Analysis (EA/RIR/RFAA/MSA). An EA/RIR/RFAA/MSA provides assessments of the environmental impacts of a proposed action and its reasonable alternatives (the EA), the benefits and costs of the alternatives and the distribution of impacts (the RIR), the identification of the small entities that may be affected by the alternatives (the RFA analysis), and an analysis of how the alternatives align with the National Standards (the MSA analysis). This EA/RIR/RFAA/MSA addresses the statutory requirements of the MSA, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Presidential Executive Order 12866, and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. An EA/RIR/RFAA/MSA is a standard document produced by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) West Coast Region to provide the analytical background for decision-making. We, the Council and NMFS, are analyzing the effects anticipated from setting harvest specifications and management measures for the 2025-26 groundfish fisheries managed under the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (hereafter, the PCGFMP).