Recent Groundfish Public Notices & Trip Limits
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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.
Recent 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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