PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish,
Published: 2003-03-21
NMFS announces the receipt of an application, and NMFS' intent
to renew EFPs for vessels participating in an observation program to
monitor the incidental take of salmon and groundfish in the shorebased
component of the Pacific whiting fishery. The EFPs are necessary to
allow trawl vessels fishing for Pacific whiting to delay sorting their
catch,
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish; Groundfish Observer Program,
Published: 2003-09-10
NMFS proposes to amend the regulations implementing the
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to provide for a
mandatory, vesselfinanced observer program on atsea processing
vessels. This action would require processing vessels to employ and pay
for either one or two (depending on vessel length) NMFScertified
observers obtained
RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish,
Published: 2003-06-02
NMFS announces changes to the closed areas affecting the
limited entry trawl fleet and open access exempted trawl fleet, also
known as the trawl Rockfish Conservation Areas (trawl RCAs). For the
trawl ``B'' platoon, the closed areas for the cumulative limit period
beginning May 16 through June 30, 2003, will be the same for the ``A''
platoon. For
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast and Western Pacific fisheries—; Highy migratory species,
Published: 2003-11-06
NMFS announces that the Pacific Fishery Management Council
(Council) has submitted the Fishery Management Plan for U.S. West Coast
Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species (FMP)for Secretarial review. The
FMP is a response to increasing concern about the effect of fishing on
highly migratory species (HMS) and on ocean resources caught
incidentally
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish,
Published: 2003-08-18
NMFS announces that the Pacific Fishery Management Council
(Council) has submitted Amendment 161 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Secretarial review. Amendment 161
would set a process and standards by which the Council will specify
rebuilding plans for groundfish stocks declared overfished by the
Secretary of
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Precious coral, etc.,
Published: 2003-04-07
NMFS announces that the Western Pacific Fishery Management
Council (Council) has prepared supplements to FMP Amendment 4 to the
Fishery Management Plan for the Precious Coral Fisheries of the Western
Pacific Region (Amendment 4) fisheries, FMP Amendment 6 to the Fishery
Management Plan for the Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of
the
RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; West Coast salmon,
Published: 2003-09-12
NMFS announces that the recreational selective fishery for
marked hatchery coho salmon in the area from Cape Falcon, OR to Humbug
Mountain, OR, was closed at midnight on August 19, 2003. The Northwest
Regional Administrator, NMFS (Regional Administrator), determined that
the quota of 88,000 marked hatchery coho had been reached. The
recreational
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish,
Published: 2003-06-05
NMFS, in cooperation with the Pacific Fishery Management
Council (Council), announces its intention to prepare an EIS in
accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to assess
the impacts of the 2004 Pacific Coast groundfish fishery specifications
and management measures on the human environment.
PROPOSED RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Pacific Coast groundfish,
Published: 2003-11-07
NMFS announces that the Pacific Fishery Management Council
(Pacific Council) has submitted Amendment 162 to the Pacific Coast
Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Secretarial review.
Amendment 162 would amend the FMP to include overfished species
rebuilding plans for lingcod, canary rockfish, darkblotched rockfish,
and Pacific ocean perch
