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From Overfished to Sustainable Harvests: Pacific Bluefin Tuna Rebound to New Highs

New stock assessment reveals largest recorded biomass since assessments began.
June 25, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A school of silvery Pacific bluefin tuna swim underwater, lit from above. Pacific bluefin tuna swim underwater. Credit: Adobe Stock

Incidental Take Authorization: Phillips 66 Co.'s Ferndale Refinery Dock Maintenance and Pile Replacement Activities in Ferndale, Washington

NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Phillips 66 Co. for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to Ferndale Refinery Dock Maintenance and Pile Replacement Activities in Ferndale, Washington. NOAA Fisheries is requesting comments on its…
Notice
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West Coast
Comments Close
07/25/2024

2024–2025 Annual Specifications and Management Measures for Pacific Sardine

NMFS proposes to implement annual harvest specifications and management measures for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine (hereafter, Pacific sardine), for the fishing year from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. This proposed rule would…
Proposed Rule
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West Coast
Published
07/08/2024

2024 Harvest Specifications for Pacific Whiting and 2024 Tribal Allocation

NOAA Fisheries is announcing a final rule for the 2024 Pacific whiting fishery. This final rule will implement the recommendation of the Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty Joint Management Committee (JMC) on an adjusted U.S. total allowable catch (TAC) of 410…
Final Rule
,
West Coast
Effective
07/08/2024

U.S. Department of Commerce Allocates More Than $12M in Fishery Resource Disaster Funding

Funds will support fisheries in Alaska and the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe.
June 21, 2024 - Media Release ,
Alaska
West Coast
Fisherman holding a coho salmon with its mouth open. A fisherman in Washington state holds a coho salmon. Credit: iStock
Jun
25

SRFC Workgroup June 2024 meeting

| 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Pacific time

Sacramento River fall Chinook workgroup meeting, open to the public, June 25-26, 2024

Commercial Fishing,
Recreational Fishing,
Resources for Fishing,
Sustainable Fisheries
,
West Coast

Inseason Action #3 in Ocean Salmon Fisheries, North of Cape Falcon (commercial)

Inseason action in the commercial salmon fisheries from the U.S./Canada border to Cape Falcon, 2024
June 18, 2024 -
West Coast

2024 IPHC Area 2A Commercial Pacific Halibut Season Is Set to Open

NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement will conduct patrols during the upcoming commercial halibut fishing season.
June 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Group of men in uniform and marine weather gear on a ship inspecting and handling the surrounding halibut fish. State and Federal enforcement personnel inspecting halibut during the 2023 season. Credit: NOAA

Formal Rulemaking on Proposed MMPA Waiver and Hunt Regulations Governing Gray Whale Hunts by the Makah Tribe

On April 5, 2019, we published a proposed rule to issue a waiver of the MMPA take moratorium, a critical step in an agency decision about whether to authorize the Makah Indian Tribe to resume limited treaty-based hunting of eastern North Pacific (ENP)…
Notice
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West Coast
Published
07/08/2024

NOAA Fisheries Authorizes Makah Tribe to Resume Gray Whale Hunt

Decision will allow limited ceremonial and subsistence hunting by the Tribe in accordance with long-standing treaty rights, international quotas
June 13, 2024 - Media Release ,
West Coast
Makah Tribe in hand-carved canoes The Makah Tribe long hunted whales in hand-carved canoes, such as this one landing at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula about 1900. They voluntarily stopped hunting gray whales in 1928 as commercial whaling depleted the species, which has since recovered in the eastern Pacific. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.