by wpcouncil | Apr 23, 2025 | News and Updates, Press Releases, Upcoming Other Meetings and Events
News and Announcements Press Release-Clarifying Impact of President Trump’s Action on Pacific Fishing (23 April 2025) HONOLULU (23 April 2025) Recent media responses to President Trump’s April 17 Proclamation to restore access for American fishermen to the waters...
by wpcouncil | Mar 14, 2025 | News and Updates, Press Releases, Upcoming Other Meetings and Events
News and Announcements Press Release-Council Science Advisors Discuss Updates to Protected Species Issues and Strategic Planning for WPR (14 March 2025) HONOLULU (14 March 2025) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical...
by wpcouncil | Oct 17, 2023 | Federal Register Notices, Hawaii Archipelago, News and Updates, Pacific Pelagics, Protected Species
News + Announcements Proposed Changes to Seabird Measures for Hawaiʻi Deep-Set Longline Fishery (Comments due by November 16, 2023) AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Proposed...
by wpcouncil_amy | Jun 24, 2022 | News and Updates, Press Releases
News and Announcements Press Release: Council Offended by Removal of Last Vestiges of US Ocean Waters Open to Fishing (23 June 2022) HONOLULU (23 June 2022) The Council supported permitting non-commercial fishing and prohibiting commercial fishing in the Monument...
by wpcouncil | Jun 17, 2022 | News and Updates, Press Releases
News and Announcements Press Release: Western Pacific Scientists Support No Jeopardy Determination for Oceanic Whitetip Sharks Caught in Region’s Bottomfish Fisheries (17 June 2022) HONOLULU (17 June 2022) The Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC)...
