...fishers are encouraged to submit ideas for 2013 regulatory changes or management actions for review at the International Pacific Halibut Commission's annual meeting. Proposals may include season length, logbook, reporting measures, landing requirements...
...would help the Department of Fish and Game, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, and the International Pacific Halibut Commission do their work. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to acquire this knowledge.There is an effort...
...from 2003-06. He has been president of the Petersburg Vessel Owners Association and has sat on the International Pacific Halibut Commission Research Advisory Board.? Contact reporter Pat Forgey at 523-2250 or at patrick.forgey@juneauempire...
...current NMFS regulations do not force the charter industry to stay within its quota thus forcing the International Pacific Halibut Commission to impose bag and size limits. The way around this is the Halibut Catch Sharing Plan now under public...
...1 percent, though, from the same period a year earlier.The department, in a recent letter to the International Pacific Halibut Commission, said the average weight for the fishery was down about 64 percent due to a rule, imposed this year...
The International Pacific Halibut Commission will webcast a briefing on its stock assessment and preliminary recommended catch limits for 2012. The webcast is open to the...
...alarmed at a decision that could set catch limits at one fish per person.Low halibut stocks led the International Pacific Halibut Commission to cut combined commercial fishing catches by 17 percent in 2012. Guided sport fisheries saw a catch-limit...
...fisheries hopes to have a final plan drafted by the end of the year in time and, if approved, that the International Pacific Halibut Commission can use it during its January meeting to help determine catch limits for the 2012 season.Merrill said...
...didn't need to relax," Massey laughed. "Don't get me started on the feds in state waters."The International Pacific Halibut Commission, which had been shaving off a pound here and a pound there over the years, cut the 2011 halibut quota...
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