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 Annual Meeting to be held in Portland, OR in January of 2018. There were some […]
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 upcoming September 11-18 PFMC meeting, the council will consider potential CSP alternatives to analyze in
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 were sailing vessels transporting iced halibut as far south as San Francisco. The fish originated
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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
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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
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The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) set the area 2A allocation of 970,000 lbs for 2015. California received 4% of the non-tribal portion of this allocation which amounted to 25,220 net pounds. Due to our success in past years the 2015 season was constructed as follows: the first 15 days of May, June, July and
