Pacific Halibut Fishery Declining

Implications of Bycatch, Discards, and Size Limits on Reference Points in the Pacific Halibut Fishery

The current harvest policy for the Pacific halibut fishery uses a 32-inch minimum size limit in the directed commercial fishery, and total annual catches in each of the eight regulatory areas are based on area-specific exploitation rate targets. In nondirected fisheries retention of halibut is prohibited. Post-release survival rates are gear dependent and partially based on observer accounts of...

Individual Vessel Quotas in the Halibut Fishery of British Columbia

An Econometric Market Model for the Pacific Halibut Fishery1

The Alaskan and British Columbian fishery for Pacific halibut has undergone substantial restructuring over the last decade from a regulated open-access no-holds-barred derby that largely relied on frozen inventories to satisfy market demand to a slow-paced individual quota-based fishery that has reorganized supply chains to deliver high-quality fresh product throughout a protracted season. We h...

Precious The Corals Fishery Management Plan of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

Summary of recent trends in the South Pacific albacore fishery