IPHC Interim Halibut Meeting: The International Pacific Halibut Commission had their interim meeting on November 28 and 29 that gives the “state of the fishery” and the results of the summer survey. It also sets up the agenda for the …
Pacific Halibut Quota Discussion
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the PFMC Groundfish Advisory Panel (GAP) has proposed some additional Catch Share Plan (CSP) alternatives for the PFMC to analyze this fall (also see Tom’s summary on page 4). At the …
2017 Preseason Groundfish Report
The wind is howling outside, the waves are big, we’ve received over 40” of rain to date, the rivers are at monitor stage, (when are the herring going to run?); and our thoughts are tuning to what lies ahead for …
FUN WITH NUMBERS: OR HOW TO CREATE ELECTRONIC FISH
The previous article on the Groundfish preview was long enough and I didn’t want to clutter it up with too many facts and figures on Pacific halibut, so I’ll tease your scientific curiosity in a brief article on statistical sampling. …
Tidbits from California’s Pacific Halibut History
Given the times, and the tools available, the oldest records of California halibut fishing primarily deal with commercial catches. But they do provide some evidence of how many fish once roamed the California coast. As early as the 1870s there …
Halibut letters needed ASAP – Preferable by 5/26/16
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 …
A Look At California’s Recreational Pacific Halibut Fishery
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 …
Rockfish and Halibut Season Winter 2016
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 …
Update on Pacific Halibut Age, Growth, and Maturation Thesis Project
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 …
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