HOT ISSUES & ACTIVE DOCUMENTS

Hot Issues

• Main Hawaiian Islands Bottomfish
• North Pacific Loggerhead Sea Turtle Expert Workshop Report (614 KB pdf)

Proposed Rules

• National Standard 1 Guideline Revisions to Provide Guidance on Annual Catch Limits (ACL) and Accountability Measures (AM)
• Amendment 18 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Pelagics Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region and Draft Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) (5.26 MB pdf) - Management Modifications for the Hawaii-based Shallow-set Longline Swordfish Fishery that Would Remove Effort Limits, Eliminate the Set Certificate Program, and Implement New Sea Turtle Interaction Caps.  Comments due October 6, 2008
• Amendment 14 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region - 2007 December 19
  • Notice of Availability FR Notice, 2007/12/27
• Amendment 13 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Crustaceans Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region
  • Notice of Availability FR Notice, 2008/08/14
  • Proposed Rule FR Notice, 2008/08/22
• Amendment 10 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bottomfish of the Western Pacific Region
  • Proposed Rule FR Notice, 2008/09/08
• Amendment 15 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Pelagics Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region
  • Proposed Rule FR Notice, 2008/08/28

Active Documents

• Marine Protected Area Policy (64KB pdf)
• Aquaculture Policy
• Final Rule-Optional Use of Electronic Logbooks - Approved
  • Federal Register notice (60KB pdf)
  • Regulatory Amendment (98KB pdf) 
• Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (6.7MB pdf) 
• Draft Fishery Ecosystem Plans
  • American Samoa Archipelago (2.3MB pdf)
  • Hawaii Archipelago (2.5MB pdf)
  • Mariana Archipelago (2.3MB pdf)
  • Pacific Pelagic Fisheries (2.2MB pdf)
  • Pacific Remote Island Areas (2.1MB pdf)
• Ecosystem based fishery management:
  • Report of April 2005 workshop (4.8MB pdf)
  • Report of January 2006 workshop (4.6MB pdf)
  • Report of January 2007 policy workshop (1.3MB pdf)
• 2006 Black Coral Science and Management Workshop (1.5MB pdf)