by wpcouncil | Mar 20, 2019 | News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Release, News + Updates ← Previous Post Next Post → HONOLULU (20 March 2019) At 9:40 a.m. yesterday, minutes after Kitty M. Simonds completed the executive director’s report to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, the...
by wpcouncil | Mar 18, 2019 | News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Releases ← Previous Post Next Post → HONOLULU (18 March 2019) Projects to develop fisheries topped the list of needs identified by fishermen from Hawai‘i, American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) during...
by wpcouncil | Mar 16, 2019 | News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Releases ← Previous Post Next Post → HONOLULU (15 March 2019) The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council concluded a three-day meeting yesterday in Honolulu with a suite of...
by wpcouncil | Mar 12, 2019 | General, News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Releases ← Previous Post Next Post → HONOLULU (12 March 2019) Renowned scientists from throughout the Pacific began a three-day meeting today in Honolulu to consider a range of issues facing the offshore fisheries of Hawai‘i and the US...
by wpcouncil | Jan 10, 2019 | News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Releases ← Previous Post Next Post → HONOLULU (10 January 2019) On the last day of 2018, President Trump signed into law the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act (S. 1520), also known as the Modern Fish Act. The bill, which had been...
by wpcouncil | Dec 18, 2018 | News and Updates, Press Releases
Press Releases ← Previous Post Next Post → The fishery is scheduled to reopen on Jan. 1, 2019, with allowable interactions of 26 leatherbacks and 17 loggerheads. Should either interaction level be reached, the fishery will close for the remainder of 2019,...
