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...
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...
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...
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...
by wpcouncil | Aug 21, 2014 | General, News and Updates
Dear Mr. President, The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council requests that the Administration abandon its plan to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monuments (PRIMNM) or, if expansion is inevitable,that commercial fishing be allowed to...
