# 2025-06187: Rockfish Fishers: Pay Your 3% Fee by February Deadline

2025-06187, Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program Cost Recovery Fee Notice, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published 2025-04-11, effective 2025-04-11; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06187
- As of: 2026-10-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-06187
- Title: Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska; Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program Cost Recovery Fee Notice
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 15450
- Published: 2025-04-11
- Effective: 2025-04-11
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-08

## In one line

Rockfish Fishers: Pay Your 3% Fee by February Deadline

## Summary

If you’re part of the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program, here’s the scoop: for the 2024 fishing year (May 1 to Nov 15), the cost recovery fee is set at 3% of the fish’s value. Rockfish cooperatives had to pay their fees by February 15, 2025, helping cover management and enforcement costs. This keeps the fishery fair and sustainable while making sure everyone chips in their share.

## Abstract

NMFS publishes the standard ex-vessel prices and fee percentage for cost recovery under the Central Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program). This action is intended to provide participants in a rockfish cooperative with the standard prices and fee percentage for the 2024 fishing year, which was authorized from May 1 through November 15. The fee percentage is 3.00 percent. The fee payments were due from each rockfish cooperative on or before February 15, 2025.

## Effects PRIA read

- 3% Cost-Recovery Fee for 2024 Rockfish Season: cost, medium. For the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program, the cost recovery fee for the 2024 fishing year (May 1 through November 15, 2024) is set at 3.00 percent of the standard ex-vessel value of rockfish CQ landings. Rockfish cooperatives were required to pay their fees on or before February 15, 2025.
- Standard Prices Used to Calculate Fees: mixed, low. NMFS uses published standard ex-vessel prices (dollars per pound) for each rockfish primary and secondary species on a monthly basis to compute the fee. For the 2024 Kodiak season, examples include Sablefish at $0.56–$0.60 per pound and Pacific Cod at $0.22–$0.26 per pound for May through November…
- Who Is Not Subject to the Fee: benefit, low. Participants in the rockfish entry level longline fishery and trawl vessels that opt out of joining a cooperative are not subject to the Rockfish Program cost recovery fee because they do not receive rockfish cooperative quota (CQ).
- Penalties for Late or Nonpayment of Fees: cost, high. If a permit holder fails to pay the fee by February 15, the holder's rockfish quota share becomes non-transferable and the person is ineligible to receive additional quota share by transfer. Cooperative members will not receive any rockfish cooperative quota the following year until full payment is…
- Estimated 2024 Costs Would Have Exceeded Statutory Cap: benefit, medium. NMFS estimated that program costs were 7.51 percent of the standard ex-vessel value for 2024, driven by a 25.8 percent increase in program costs and an approximate 39.9 percent decrease in fishery value; however, the fee percentage is capped by statute at 3.00 percent and was set at that cap.

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## Sources
- [2025-06187 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/11/2025-06187/fisheries-of-the-exclusive-economic-zone-off-alaska-groundfish-of-the-gulf-of-alaska-central-gulf-of)
- [2025-06187 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-11/pdf/2025-06187.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06187 (as of 2026-10-08).