Press Release — Public Hearing on America Samoa Large Vessel Prohibited Area to be Held on May 3

by wpcouncil | Apr 23, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (23 April 2014) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council will hold a public hearing on the Large Vessel Prohibited Area (LVPA) in waters surrounding American Samoa from 4 to 6 p.m. on May 3, 2014, at the Sadie’s by the Sea conference room, in...

Press Release – Federal Fishery Managers Address Cumulative Impacts on Fishing Communities

by wpcouncil | Mar 21, 2014 | Press Releases

TUMON, GUAM (21 March 2014) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, which has authority over federally managed fisheries in Hawai`i, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the US Pacific remote island areas,...

Press Release – CNMI Got ‘Jacked,’ Fishery Management Council Is Told

by wpcouncil | Mar 21, 2014 | Press Releases

HONOLULU (19 March 2014) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, which has authority over federally managed fisheries in Hawai`i, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the US Pacific remote island areas,...

Press Release – Scientists Reiterate Recommendation to Open Hawai`i Bottomfish Fishing Areas, Suggest Revisions to Coral Reef Fisheries Annual Quotas

by wpcouncil | Mar 21, 2014 | Press Releases

HONOLULU (15 March 2014) A group of 20 prominent scientists from throughout the Pacific concluded its three-day meeting Thursday in Honolulu with recommendations for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on federally managed fisheries in Hawai`i,...

Press Release – Tuna Commission 2014-2017 Measures Are Driven by Allocation, Not Conservation

by wpcouncil | Jan 6, 2014 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (06 January 2014) Both the Hawaii-based US longline fishery and the US purse-seine fishery that operate in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) were among those fisheries obliged to accept further fishing restrictions at a recent Pacific tuna...

Press Release – PNA Must Cut Purse-Seine Juvenile Bigeye Catches

by wpcouncil | Nov 26, 2013 | News and Updates, Press Releases

HONOLULU (23 November 2013) A proposal that would subject the US longline tuna fisheries to a 45 percent reduction in bigeye tuna catch is being proposed by the Parties of Nauru Agreement (PNA), an organization that has supported rampant expansion of tuna...