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...
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...
by wpcouncil | Sep 18, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases
HONOLULU (18 Sept. 2015) A milestone was reached this week in the setting of the 2016 and 2017 annual catch limits (ACLs) for federally managed bottomfish fisheries in the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...
by wpcouncil | Jul 7, 2015 | Past Council and Advisory Body Meetings
Dates: August 11 & 12, 2015 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: Council office, Honolulu FR Notice
by wpcouncil | Jun 18, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases, Protected Species
HONOLULU (17 June 2015) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council today in Honolulu recommended that the annual catch limits (ACLs) for seven prized species of deep-water bottomfish (known locally as the Deep 7) caught in waters around the main Hawaiian...