Whiting Fishery Management

Pacific Whiting or "hake" (Merluccius productus) is a pelagic species taken with midwater trawl gear off the U.S. West Coast. Of the 90+ species managed under the Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, whiting landings are the largest single-species landings by volume. Whiting is taken by catcher boats delivering to shore-based processing plants and to at-sea mothership processors, and by large catcher-processor vessels.

2008 Pacific Whiting Fishery

• Federal Register and Official Notices
  
• • Mar 28, 2008; Federal Register notice - Intent to issue exempted fishing permits (EFPs) to Pacific whiting shoreside vessels; request for comments (PDF 52KB)
  • Mar 19, 2008; Federal Register notice - A Vessel License Limitation Program for the Pacific Whiting Fishery; Amendment 15 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (PDF 53KB)
  • Mar 2008; Draft Amendment 15, Fishery Management Plan Language (PDF 18KB)
  • Mar 10, 2008; Federal Register notice - NOAA Fisheries is continuing its solicitation of nominations for the Advisory Panel on Pacific Whiting (PDF 49KB)
    
    
    
• Inseason Updates
  
  
• Shoreside Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) Information
  
  
• Vessels
  
  
• Processors