Public Notices
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The public notices below serve as brief inseason updates on changes to groundfish landings limits. They include a complete set of trip limit tables. For more detailed information on these inseason changes see the Federal Register. You may also contact Frank Lockhart at 206-526-6140, in Seattle, Wash., or Mark Helvey at 562-980-4000, in Long Beach, Calif.
All Public Notices
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05/15/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-12: NMFS provides information and a draft agenda for the May 22, 2013 meeting of the bilateral joint management committee meeting for Pacific whiting
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05/09/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-11: The 2012 Economic Data Collection forms, for participants in the trawl rationalization program, are now available; completed forms are due September 1, 2013
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05/08/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-10: NMFS announces the final harvest specifications and sector allocations for Pacific whiting for 2013.
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05/07/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-09: NMFS announces inseason changes to the incidental Pacific halibut retention regulations in the primary sablefish fishery and to recreational fishery management measures off Washington, effective May 6, 2012
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05/07/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-08: NMFS announces Pacific whiting allocations, adjustments to quota share accounts, adjustments to vessel accounts, and changes to the online IFQ system.
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04/11/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-07: NMFS announces adjustments to QS accounts for Pacific halibut in the shorebased IFQ program, plans for vessel accounts to prepare for surplus carryover in the shorebased IFQ program, and changes to the online IFQ system
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03/29/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-06: Information for Participants in the Sablefish Primary Fishery, which begins April 1
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03/28/2013 - NMFS-SEA-13-05: Reconsideration of Allocation of Whiting (RAW 2) has published and is effective April 1, 2013
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02/01/2013 - Public Notice: Trawl Rationalization Program: Cost Recovery Proposed Rule - available for public comment
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01/17/2013 - An extension to the temporary, emergency rule, called "RAW 1" has published, changes to non-renewed vessel accounts are announced, and a "2013 IFQ Important Dates Calendar" is provided
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01/04/2013 - Trawl Rationalization Program: Shorebased IFQ Program - Release of Additional Whiting QP
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01/03/2013 - 2013 Trip Limit Tables
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01/03/2013 - 2013 commercial limited entry fixed gear primary sablefish fishery tier limits
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01/02/2013 - A proposed rule, the Reconsideration of Allocation of Whiting (RAW 2) is available for public comment
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12/31/2012 - NMFS-SEA-12-19: 2013-2014 Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery harvest specifications and management measures
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12/13/2012 - Trawl Rationalization Program: Trawl Rationalization Program:
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11/27/2012 - NMFS-SEA-12-17: Trawl Rationalization Program IFQ – notice of QP transfer deadline
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11/14/2012 - Availability of proposed 2013-2014 harvest specifications and management measures for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; public comment period closes Dec, 5, 2012
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10/23/2012 - Compliance Guide 12/7/2007
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10/17/2012 - Changes to management measures are being implemented in an Oct. 17, 2012, Federal Register notice (77FR63758) that will become effective Nov. 1, 2012. The Council recommended increased trip limits for commercial open access fixed gear sablefish fisheries south of 36° N. lat. The Council also recommended California Southern Management Area (SMA) Rockfish Conservation Area (RCA) adjustments south of 34°27’ N. latitude. This public notice includes updated commercial trip limit tables for the rest of 2012.
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10/11/2012 - Adjustments to vessel accounts for surplus carryover of sablefish and adjustments to quota share accounts for reapportionment of whiting in the Shorebased IFQ Program
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10/04/2012 - Memo: 10/04/2012.pdf
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09/17/2012 - Corrections to Federal groundfish regulations that affect trawl and non-trawl fisheries
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08/20/2012 - Reminder to all Quota Share account holders of Sept. 1 transfer deadline; and inseason actions for limited entry fixed gear DTL fisheries: sablefish trip limit decreases North of 36° N. Lat., increases to bocaccio and shelf rockfish trip limits South of 34° 27’ N. lat.
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08/01/2012 - We announced publication of an emergency rule that delays some and revises other portions of the regulations potentially impacted by the reconsideration of allocation of whiting (RAW 1); effective Sept. 1, 2012
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05/21/2012 - We announced publication of a proposed rule related to the trawl rationalization catch share program, to delay or revise several portions of the regulations potentially impacted by the reconsideration of allocation of whiting (RAW 1)
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05/14/2012 - Second bilateral meeting of Pacific Whiting Joint Management Committee will be held in Lynnwood, Wash., May 29-30, 2012
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05/14/2012 - We announced adjustments to quota share (QS) accounts for Pacific whiting in the Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program; adjustments to vessel accounts for surplus carryover in the Shorebased IFQ Program; and allocation of Pacific whiting for the Mothership and Catcher/Processor Coop Programs
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05/08/2012 - 2011 Economic Data Collection (EDC) forms are now available on the web and are being mailed to participants in the trawl rationalization program; forms are due Sept. 1, 2012
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04/25/2012 - Changes to commercial fishery management measures for Pacific Coast groundfish fishery; effective May 1, 2012
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04/16/2012 - Changes to commercial fishery management measures; implementing a shift in the shoreward line of the trawl Rockfish Conservation Area
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03/30/2012 - We announced the commercial limited entry fixed gear sablefish primary fishery’s tier limits for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery off Washington, Oregon and California. These tier limits were previously published in the Federal Register on Dec. 13, 2011. (76FR77415). This notice also contains answers to some frequently asked questions on the sablefish primary fishery.
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03/01/2012 - First bilateral meeting of Pacific Whiting Joint Management Committee (JMC) will be held in Vancouver, B.C., Mar. 14-15, 2012
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03/01/2012 - Changes to recreational fishery management measures in Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
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02/07/2012 - NMFS NWR announces new Pacific Whiting Treaty web page and Scientific Review Group meeting
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01/11/2012 - Bilateral meeting of Pacific Whiting Joint Technical Committee in Nanaimo, B.C., Jan. 17-18, 2012
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12/22/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Trawl Rationalization Program: Program Improvement and Enhancement Rule and Amendment 21-1, Changes for 2012 and Beyond
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12/19/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to commercial and recreational fishery management measures; effective Jan. 1, 2012
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12/19/2011 - Secretarial Amendment 1 to Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan and publication of final rule - fishery management measures effective Jan. 1, 2012
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12/14/2011 - Reapportionment of Mothership Sector Non-Whiting Catch Allocations to Catcher/Processor Sector
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12/01/2011 - Year-end information for the Trawl Rationalization Program
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11/23/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to commercial fishery management measures; effective November 1, 2011
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10/28/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to commercial fishery management measures; effective November 1, 2011
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09/29/2011 - Bilateral Pacific Whiting Advisory Panel Meeting and Announcement of Advisory Panel Appointments for Pacific Whiting Treaty
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09/28/2011 - Availability of Secretarial Amendment 1 to Fishery Management Plan and publication of proposed rule; request for comments
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09/02/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Trawl Rationalization Program: Proposed PIE Rule and Amendment 21-1 available for public comment, correction published.
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07/27/2011 - Reminder to QS account holders that all quota pounds (QPs) in a QS account must be transferred to a vessel account no later than Sept. 1, 2011, (11:59 pm) to be available for use in 2011; see notice for details and contact information
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06/29/2011 - Inseason changes to commercial fishery management measures in Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; effective July 1, 2011
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06/17/2011 - Increases to primary sablefish tier limits
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06/11/2011 - Increase to limited entry fixed gear primary sablefish fishery tier limits, effective at 1:15 pm PT on June 10, 2011
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06/01/2011 - Call for nominations for Advisory Panel and Joint Management Committee on Pacific Whiting
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05/25/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: Errata for calculation instruction on IFQ allocation worksheet
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05/20/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: observer discard data entered into IFQ vessel accounts, QS accounts to be “topped-up” for some IFQ species, whiting allocations available for coops
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05/09/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial and recreational management measures for May 2011 through December 2012
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05/04/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: Mandatory economic data collection forms are available for 2009 and 2010; due Sept. 1, 2011
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04/06/2011 - Mandatory reporting requirement for first receivers in the Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program. Effective immediately, the ex-vessel value of the landing by species is a mandatory field that must be completed on the electronic fish ticket by the IFQ first receiver.
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02/28/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. 2011 Sablefish tier limits; inseason changes to commercial and recreational fishery management measures; effective Mar. 1, 2011
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01/19/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: Vessel Account Number Information and Errata for Compliance Guide and Public Notice
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01/07/2011 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: Fishing will begin under the Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program on Jan. 11, 2011, as soon as you log onto your vessel account through the QS account/vessel account link on the Trawl Program Website, which we anticipate to be available at noon (Pacific time) on Jan. 11
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12/31/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery, Trawl Rationalization Program: Fishery to Open Jan. 11, 2011, and Clarifications
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12/27/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Interim Harvest Specifications and Trip Limit Tables for All Commercial Fisheries and Trawl Rationalization Program Implementation Measures
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12/17/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Trawl Rationalization Program: Final Rule on Additional Program Details and Compliance Guide
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12/03/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Trawl Rationalization Program: Final Rule Available, First Receiver Site Licenses Available, and Accepting Requests for Vessel Accounts
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12/02/2010 - Extension of comment period to Jan. 4, 2011, on Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Specifications and Management Measures for 2011-2012
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11/30/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to fishery management measures; Effective at 0001 hours local time on December 1, 2010
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10/28/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial trip limits for Jan. 1, 2011. Fishing in the limited entry trawl fishery will be prohibited beginning Jan. 1, 2011, until NOAA Fisheries completes all final steps necessary to implement the trawl rationalization program
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10/07/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery fishery management plan Amendments 16-5 and 23; additional information for commenters; comment period ends Nov. 30, 2010
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10/06/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Trawl Rationalization Program. Initial Issuance Final Rule, Applications Available, and Compliance Guide Available.
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10/01/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Announcing the availability of fishery management plan amendments 16-5 and 23 and request for public comments. Public comment period ends November 30, 2010
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09/30/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to fishery management measures; Effective at 0001 hours local time on October 1, 2010
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09/23/2010 - Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting 2010
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09/08/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Chinook salmon bycatch in the shoreside Pacific Whiting Fishery
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08/31/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Proposed Program Components Rule for the Trawl Rationalization Program; Available for Public Comment
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08/23/2010 - Trawl Rationalization Program; Transfer of Limited Entry Permits
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08/20/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to fishery management measures; Effective at 0001 hours local time on August 18, 2010
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07/16/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Correction to the inseason changes to petrale sole trip limits in the limited entry bottom trawl fishery management measures that went into place July 1, 2010; Effective at 0001 hours local time on July 16, 2010
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07/01/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to commercial fishery management measures effective July 1, 2010; Changes to yelloweye rockfish harvest guidelines and set-asides
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06/30/2010 - Date Corrections to Federal Register Notice 75 FR 32994 on Amendments 20 and 21 - Trawl Rationalization Program. Decision date to be corrected from September 8, 2010 to August 10, 2010. Comment period end date to be corrected from August 9, 2010 to July 12, 2010
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06/22/2010 - Trawl Rationalization Program. Deadline extended to August 1 for potential participants to review NORPAC data and make any necessary corrections
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06/04/2010 - End of Pacific whiting primary season for mothership sector
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06/03/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Proposed Initial Issuance Rule for the Trawl Rationalization Program. Available for Public Comment
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05/14/2010 - End of Pacific Whiting primary season for shore-based sector south of 42° N. Lat
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05/12/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Availability of FMP Amendments 20 and 21, and extended deadline for potential participants in trawl rationalization program to review data and make any necessary corrections
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04/30/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Inseason changes to commercial fishery management measures
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04/30/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Pacific whiting harvest specifications and management measures for 2010
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03/31/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial limited entry fixed gear primary sablefish season tier limits for 2010
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02/24/2010 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial and recreational fishery management measures
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02/19/2010 - Small Entity Compliance Guide for Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Trawl Rationalization Program - Ownership interest forms and review of qualifying data
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01/29/2010 - Intersector Allocation: DEIS out for public comment
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12/23/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial trawl fishery management measures, effective Jan. 1, 2010; and 2010 trip limit tables, effective Jan. 1, 2010
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12/07/2009 - Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting 2009
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12/04/2009 - Trawl Rationalization Program: DEIS out for public comment and changes to canary rockfish IFQ QS initial allocation
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12/01/2009 - Trawl Rationalization: A Catch Share Program brochure
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10/30/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial trawl fishery management measures, effective Nov. 1, 2009
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10/27/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial fishery management measures, effective October 28, 2009
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07/06/2009 - End of Pacific Whiting Primary Season for Shore-based Sector, effective July 7, 2009
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07/02/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial fishery management measures, effective July 1, 2009
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05/13/2009 - End of Pacific Whiting Primary Season for Shore-based Sector South of 42° N.Lat.
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04/29/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial non-trawl management measures
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03/31/2009 - Pacific coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial limited entry fixed gear primary sablefish season tier limits
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02/27/2009 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial and recreational management measures for March through December 2009 and for January through December 2010
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12/31/2008 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial management measures for January-February 2009, off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California
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12/01/2008 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial management measures in the trawl fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California
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11/26/2008 - Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting 2008
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11/18/2008 - Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting 2008
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11/05/2008 - Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting 2008
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10/10/2008 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to management measures
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10/07/2008 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Correction to Limited Entry trawl gear fishery management measures North of 40°10’ N. lat., effective Oct. 7, 2008
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08/18/2008 - Closure of 2008 Pacific Whiting Fisheries
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08/01/2008 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial management measures for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California, effective August 1, 2008
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05/16/2008 - "This Public Notice corrects language describing the May 1 inseason changes to the Open Access Sablefish Daily Trip Limit (DTL) fishery that were published in the April 29, 2008 Public Notice. The Trip Limit Tables (Table 5 North and 5 South) in the April 29, 2008 public notice were correct and are unchanged via this correction. This error was isolated only to the April 29, 2008 Public Notice. Federal regulations for the Open Access fishery did not contain this error."
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04/04/2008 - Intent to issue exempted fishing permits (EFPs) to Pacific whiting shoreside vessels; meetings added
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03/28/2008 - Intent to issue exempted fishing permits (EFPs) to Pacific whiting shoreside vessels
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03/21/2008 - Limited Entry Fixed Gear Tier Sablefish 2008 Season Information
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12/14/2007 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial management measures for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California, effective January 1, 2008
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12/04/2007 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial management measures for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California, effective December 4, 2007
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10/01/2007 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Changes to commercial and recreational management measures for the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery off Washington, Oregon, and California
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07/27/2007 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Correction to limited entry trawl trip limit tables
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07/20/2007 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. NMFS announces changes to commercial management measures off Washington, Oregon, and California
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04/25/2007 - NMFS announces inseason adjustments to the 2007-2008 groundfish specifications and management measures effective May 1, 2007
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04/16/2007 - NMFS announces inseason adjustments to the 2007-2008 groundfish specifications and management measures effective April 17, 2007
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03/14/2007 - Pacific whiting vessels fishing under exempted fishing permits and Pacific whiting shoreside processors/first receivers
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03/01/2007 - Limited Entry Fixed Gear Tier Sablefish 2007 Season Information
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02/09/2007 - Request for Industry cooperation in reducing 2007 trawl Petrale Sole catch
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12/28/2006 - Commercial and Recreational Groundfish Management Measures for January-December of 2007-2008
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11/29/2006 - Changes to Commercial and Recreational Management Measures
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09/29/2006 - Memo: End of Mothership Whiting Season
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09/28/2006 - Changes to Commercial and Recreational Management Measures
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06/30/2006 - July 06 Inseason Adjustments to Commercial, Recreational, and Tribal Management Measures
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05/19/2006 - Small Entity Compliance Guide for Pacific Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Conservation Area Closures and Gear Prohibitions
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04/26/2006 - May 06 Inseason Adjustments to Commercial Management Measures
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03/22/2006 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial limited entry fixed gear primary sablefish season tier limits
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02/17/2006 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Measures for March-December 2006 and reduced Darkblotched Rockfish OY
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12/27/2005 - Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery. Commercial Trip Limits for 2006. Proposed Rule for Management Measures in 2006. Lingcod Stock is Rebuilt
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11/30/2005 - Inseason Adjustments to 2005-2006 Groundfish Management Measures for December 2005-February 2006
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10/20/2005 - Closure of Halibut Retention in the Primary Sablefish Fishery
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10/20/2005 - Announcing a Proposed Rule to Implement further Provisions of the Limited Entry Fixed Gear Sablefish Permit Stacking Program
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10/18/2005 - Correction to October Inseason Adjustments to 2005-2006 Groundfish Management Measures
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08/26/2005 - Emergency Rule to establish a Salmon Conservation Zone for the Pacific Whiting Fishery
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07/27/2005 - Catch in the Bottom Trawl Fishery is Higher than Expected
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06/29/2005 - July Inseason Adjustment to 2005-2006 Groundfish Management Measures [Correction: The last paragraph on page two incorrectly references the area between 34°27’ N. lat. and U.S./Canada border. That paragraph is intended to reference the area between 34°27’ N. lat. and the U.S./Mexico border. The trip limit tables are correct.]
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05/03/2005 - Emergency Rule to Set Bycatch Limits for Directed Open Access Fishery
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04/29/2005 - May Inseason Adjustments to 2005-2006 Groundfish Management Measures
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03/29/2005 - April Inseason Changes to the 2005-2006 Groundfish Management Measures
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12/17/2004 - Commercial and Recreational Groundfish Management Measures for January-December of 2005-2006
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