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...
by wpcouncil | Jun 11, 2015 | News and Updates, Press Releases
HONOLULU (11 June 2015) At the conclusion of its three-day meeting today in Honolulu, the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council set the acceptable biological catch (ABC) for prized deep-water bottomfish...