SEASON AND BAG LIMITS May 1st opened up for halibut and closed again on May 16. That will repeat for June, July and August. If last year is a pattern it will close long before September, so don’t wait too long. One halibut per day, only two hooks per rod. Rockfish opened on July 15th […]
HASA members and supporters, As you know, HASA, Tom Marking, and others have been working hard over the years to get a fairer Catch Share Plan allocation of Pacific halibut to California anglers. We used to get 1% of the CA-OR-WA allocation (6,200 lbs), we now get 4% (29,640 lbs in 2016), and we’d like
Halibut letters needed ASAP – Preferable by 5/26/16 Read More »
By Melanie Parker, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife How’d We Get Here? So how did the Pacific halibut fishery end up the way it did in 2015? It was the culmination of work that occurred over several years by state, federal, international, and constituent input. Prior to 2008, the Pacific halibut fishery
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By Tom Marking GAP Sports Rep The North Coast will see a slight increase in Halibut this summer. At the IPHC meeting in Juneau last week, the Commission yielded to the pressure put on them by the advisory bodies and the Tribes and again gave us an increase over the Science recommended amount. It’s an
By: Miki Takada In the summer 2015 HASA Newsletter, I reported that I had collected 219 Pacific halibut samples, from Northern California and Southern Oregon. Thanks to the assistance of many of you, I ended up with 268 samples by season’s end! With such a short season, I was definitely excited that I was able
Update on Pacific Halibut Age, Growth, and Maturation Thesis Project Read More »
By Larry De Ridder In our last issue we looked at some of the issues surrounding the proposed removal of four large dams on the Upper Klamath River, particularly at what an actual dam removal might look like. The government is continuing to hold meetings to gain input from various parties, such as the meeting
By Bob Smith (aka RBob) – HASA Salmon Representative While it’s still too soon to really know for sure how the 2016 ocean salmon season will shake out, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of last fall’s Klamath River Basin fall-run Chinook (KFRC) return and its potential impact on the upcoming season. Individual
Klamath River Basin Fall Run Chinook Salmon Update Read More »
By Larry De Ridder The Klamath River hosts the third largest salmon run on the west coast of the United States, behind only the Columbia and Sacramento systems. We, as salt water anglers, harvest many fish which originate in this system, as do anglers for hundreds of miles north and south of us. However, the
New Salmon Management Line at Klamath: The PFMC had a few proposals brought to them in the November meeting that should be of interest to us in the Klamath Management Zone area (KMZ). The first request is from the Salmon Commercial Sector and the second is from the Pacific Whiting (hake) fleet to process fish
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