We establish fishery management measures for the ocean salmon fisheries off Washington, Oregon and California. Specific fishery management measures vary by fishery and by area. The measures establish fishing areas, seasons, quotas, legal gear, recreational fishing days and catch limits, possession and landing restrictions, and minimum lengths for salmon taken in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ, 3–200 nautical miles) off Washington, Oregon and California. The management measures are intended to prevent over-fishing and to apportion the ocean harvest equitably among treaty Indian, non-treaty commercial, and recreational fisheries. The measures are also intended to allow a portion of the salmon runs to escape the ocean fisheries to provide for spawning escapement and to provide for inside fisheries (fisheries occurring in state internal waters).
Fraser Panel, Ocean Salmon & Halibut Fishing Information Hotline:
1-800-662-9825
Sign up for the Salmon Fishery Management E-mail Listserve
Dec. 29, 2011: We published final regulations to implement Amendment 16 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (FMP).
Oct. 24, 2011: We proposed regulations to implement Amendment 16 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The comment period closed Nov. 18, 2011. See the Federal Register notice below for more information; or contact Peggy Mundy, 206–526–4323.
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Amendment 16 (links to Pacific Fishery Management Council website)
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2011 Fraser River salmon fisheries inseason orders (PDF 140KB)
2011 Salmon Management Measures (PDF 228KB)
Booklet of 2011 Federal Regulations for West Coast Salmon Fisheries (PDF 994KB)
Environmental assessment (EA) on implementing the 2011 ocean salmon management measures (PDF 13.3MB)
Correction to 2011 salmon management measures (PDF 173KB)
2011 Inseason Actions 1-4 (PDF 140KB)
2011 Salmon Inseason Actions 5-26 (PFD 156KB)
2010 Fraser River salmon fisheries inseason orders (PDF 52KB)
2010 Salmon Management Measures (PDF 96KB)
Inseason Actions 1-4 (PDF 55KB)
Inseason Actions 5-8 (PDF 54KB)
Inseason Actions 9-11 (PDF 49KB)
Inseason Actions 12-13 (PDF 46KB)
Inseason Actions 14-15 (PDF 44KB)
NOAA news release announcing extension of 2008-2009 disaster declaration into 2010 for California
NOAA news release announcing extension of 2008 disaster declaration into 2009
2009 Fraser River sockeye and pink salmon fisheries inseason orders (PDF 48KB)
2009 Salmon Management Measures (PDF 95KB)
Inseason Actions 1-3 (PDF 45KB)
Inseason Actions 4-7 (PDF 50KB)
Inseason Actions 8-12 (PDF 43KB)
2008 Salmon Fishery Failure
2008 Salmon Management Measures (PDF 95KB)
Inseason Actions 1 & 2 (PDF 55KB)
Inseason Actions 3 & 4 (PDF 51KB)
Inseason Actions 5 & 6 (PDF 50KB)
Inseason Actions 7-12 (PDF 48KB)
