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Press Release – Fishery Managers Agree on Catch Limits for US Pacific Territories Bottomfish, Bigeye Tuna

by wpcouncil | Oct 23, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases

UTULEI, AMERICAN SAMOA (23 October 2015) The bottomfish annual catch limits (ACLs) in American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) should be equal to their acceptable biological catch (ABC), the Council deemed yesterday as it...

Press Release – Frustrations Voiced Over Impacts of US Fishing Quotas in the Western and Central Pacific

by wpcouncil | Oct 22, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases

UTULEI, AMERICAN SAMOA (22 October 2015) Members of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, meeting yesterday in Utulei, American Samoa, questioned the high road the United States has taken in international Pacific tuna management and the unfair...

Press Release – Fishery Advisors Focus on Mounting Tuna Management Concerns

by wpcouncil | Oct 21, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases

UTULEI, AMERICAN SAMOA (21 October 2015) Meetings leading up to the convening of the 164th Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council continued yesterday in Utulei, American Samoa. The Pelagic and International Standing Committee began the day supporting...

Radio Interviews from the Oct. 17, 2015, Fishers Forum on A.S. Fisheries now available

by wpcouncil | Oct 21, 2015 | General, News and Updates

Come and listen to interviewed persons at the October 17, 2015, Fishers Forum on American Samoa Fisheries, at the Port Administration main dock, Fagatogo, American Samoa, hosted by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and American Samoa Department...

Press Release – NMFS to Deny Tri Marine Petition, Fishery Council Asked to Expedite Analysis of the Cost to American Samoa

by wpcouncil | Oct 20, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases

UTULEI, AMERICAN SAMOA (20 October 2015) The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will not undertake an emergency rulemaking to exempt U.S. purse seine vessels that deliver at least half of their catch to tuna processing facilities in American Samoa from the...

Press Release – Bottomfish Catch Limits Could Increase for American Samoa, Decrease for Guam

by wpcouncil | Oct 14, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (14 October 2015) The Scientific and Statistical Committee, a group of renowned fishery scientists who advise the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, concluded its two-day meeting in Honolulu today by setting the 2016 and 2017 acceptable...
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