Press Release – Fishers Forum on Hawai`i Yellowfin and North Pacific Striped Marlin Management

by wpcouncil | Oct 16, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (16 October 2014) The public is invited to attend the Fishers Forum on Hawai`i yellowfin tuna and North Pacific striped marlin and view a sneak preview of ‘Ahi–The Yellowfin Tuna. This short documentary focuses on the importance of the species and research on...

Press Release – Scientists to Review Pacific Bigeye Tuna, North Pacific Striped Marlin and Other US Pacific Island Fishery Management Measures

by wpcouncil | Oct 13, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (10 October 2014) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Sci entific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will convene 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 14 to 16, 2014, at the Council office, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, to review management...

Press Release – Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Responds to the President’s Pacific Monument Expansion Decision

by wpcouncil | Sep 24, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) acknowledges that the President’s amended Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) expansion plan reduces the economic toll the original plan would have taken on sustainable US...

Applications for the Council’s Advisory Panel STILL Available

by wpcouncil | Sep 11, 2014 | General, News and Updates

Applications for the Council’s Advisory Panel STILL Available Fishermen, members of fishery-related industries and individuals from fishery- or marine related organizations are invited to apply for membership to the Advisory Panel (AP) for the Western Pacific Regional...

Press Release – At White House, Pacific Island Delegation Warns that the President’s Proposed Marine Monument Expansion Will Fail American Fishermen

by wpcouncil | Sep 10, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

At an hour-long West Wing meeting yesterday, fisheries managers and commercial fishing industry representatives from the U.S. Pacific Islands spoke with Counselor to the President John Podesta and senior officials from the White House Council on Environmental Quality...

Press Release – (VIDEO) Opposition Mounts to Obama’s Proposed Pacific Monument Expansion at Honolulu Town Hall Listening Session

by wpcouncil | Aug 27, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (WPRFMC) — August 25, 2014 – The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) has released a video compilation of concerns raised about anticipated negative consequences of the Obama Administration’s proposed expansion of the Pacific...