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...is down about 400 tons, to 12,510 tons.The final decision on halibut management will come at the International Pacific Halibut Commission meeting in January, but preliminary numbers indicate North Pacific fishermen will see a significant...
Despite changes to the stock assessment model and a new format for harvest advice, the news the International Pacific Halibut Commission heard from staff at its interim meeting was the same as it has been since 2005: the number of harvestable...
...fishermen will see about a seven percent reduction in catch this year, less than many were expecting. The International Pacific Halibut Commission set the 2013 catch limit from Northern California to the Bering Sea at 31.02 million pounds Friday. Alaska's...
...or Area 3A. The council is tasked with finding a way to split a combined catch limit, set by the International Pacific Halibut Commission, or IPHC, between commercial and charter fishermen.The council must decide between four potential...
...operators, in turn, point at the commercial harvest during the same period and the strategy employed by the International Pacific Halibut Commission that resulted in catch quotas subsequently estimated to be millions of pounds in excess of the target...
...operators to once again market trophy fish opportunity. The 37-inch size limit was recommended by the International Pacific Halibut Commission in 2011, and accepted by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, because the council had not suggested...
...fisheries management specialist Rachel Baker.Currently, the two interests are managed separately.The International Pacific Halibut Commission determines the total amount of halibut that can be harvested without causing conservation problems in...
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - Biologists for the International Pacific Halibut Commission say the sustainable halibut catch may be only half of its current level. The Kodiak Daily Mirror (http://bit.ly/fPBLA5...
...see substantial cuts in the allowable halibut catch. KMXT reports (http://bit.ly/15KdoW) the International Pacific Halibut Commission released its catch limits Friday. Overall, it's down 18 percent from last year, or about 7.5 million...
...guided sport halibut charter fleet a set percentage of the overall allowable catch determined by the International Pacific Halibut Commission. That rule could have meant reductions in daily catch limits to one fish or a second fish of a smaller...