Fish Species
Introduction
Click on the image above for the WOD Halibut and Sablefish poster (PDF file - 2,810kb)
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Fish Species
Sablefish
12/1/11: 2012 Sablefish Catch Limits PRELIMINARY
12/9/10: Sablefish Presentation: Sable_PlanTeam_Nov2010
2/9/10: 2010 Chatham Sablefish Quota
1,063,000 round pounds. This is a less than 1% decrease from the 2009 AHO (1,071,000). There are currently 87 permits for this fishery, one less than in 2009; therefore the individual equal quota share (EQS) will be 12,218 round pounds (one half of one percent more than last year’s EQS of 12,170 round pounds). The fishery opens by regulation at 8:00 am on August 15, 2010 and will close at 12:00 noon on November 15, 2010.
NSEI Sablefish 2010 (85kb PDF file)
2/8/10: Chatham Sablefish Meeting Documents posted
Sable C61C Southern status memo (43K pdf)
Sable C61A Northern status memo (82K pdf)
SP10-01 (1455K pdf)
fds09-50 2006-2007 NSEI Sablefish Stock Assessment (1696K pdf)
FMR09-54 (1091K pdf)
Memo 2009 NSEI sablefish assessment Final (103K pdf)
12/22/09: NPFMC Newsletter - December 2009 (335kb PDF file)
Note: page 12 gives the sablefish quotas for 2010.
12/17/09
2007 Chatham Assessment (1.65kb PDF file)
2010 Gulf of Alaska Assessment (1.57mb PDF file)
7/24/09: Attached are the reports from the three independent experts from the Center for Independent Experts (CIE) that reviewed the sablefish stock assessment in March. Also included is a summary report that was prepared at the conclusion of the meeting by the reviewers and the Panel chair. The summary is not an official CIE product, but provides a useful overview of the three reports. We will be preparing an official AFSC response over the coming months of how we will address issues that were raised in the review reports. This response will be distributed via email and as a September Plan Team document. Thank you for your patience in waiting for the reports and please pass on to other interested parties.
Dana Hanselman
Armstrong AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file 263 kb)
Casey AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file143 kb)
Klaer AFSC sablefish stock assessment report - final (PDF file 95 kb)
Sablefish_CIE_Panel_Summary (PDF file 57 kb)
AD&FG 2007 NSEI Sablefish Tagging Survey (PDF file off site)
June 2008 Sablefish Survey (PDF file 213 kb)
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Fish Species
Halibut
1/17/12
Thanks to Julianne Curry, PVOA, for preparing this summary of IPHC action.
IPHC ACTION
Staff recommendations for all areas EXCEPT Canada who took an extra 405,000 pounds due to bycatch issues in Alaska and uncertainty with IPHC models.
Recommendations are below and attached in PDF format.
SEASON dates:
March 17th to November 7th
Regulatory proposals:
Charter halibut area 2C reverse slot limit (U45 inch fish or O68 inch fish): PASSED
Bycatch continued to dominate the meeting, Commissioners expressed interest in continuing to highlight bycatch issues and work with appropriate agencies to address the issue.
IPHC staff to work on mortality estimates for all recreational harvest of released halibut.
IPHC staff will review the slow-up full-down policy for next year.
IPHC staff will evaluate a maximum size limit for the charter halibut fleet in 2C.
2013 meeting, VICTORIA BC January 21st to 25th 2013.
2014 meeting, SEATTLE WA January 20th to 24th 2014.
12-14-11: Halibut Catch Share Plan and 2012 Charter Management Measures
12/1/11: Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
C-6c halibut CSP report with appendices-1
12/1/11: 2012 Halibut Catch Limits PRELIMINARY
9/21/2011: Halibut Catch Sharing Plan
Halibut Coalition (website) Comments
3/24/11: International Pacific Halibut Commission paper
IPHC Announces 2011 Commercial Catch Limits and 2C Charter Restrictions
On Friday January 28th the IPHC Commissioners announced the following 2011 Catch Limits (in millions of pounds):
Area 2A 0.91
Area 2B 7.65 (2B catch limit includes all recreational removals.
Area 2C 2.33
Area 3A 14.36
Area 3 B 7.51
Area 4A 2.41
Area 4B 2.18
Area 4CDE 3.72
The Commission accepted the staff recommendations. Commissioners spoke to the economic hardship facing fishermen in Area 2C.
The season opening date will be March 12th at 12:00 am and the closing date will be November 18th at 12 noon.
The Commission voted to restrict the 2C halibut charter sector to their GHL allocation by imposing a 37″ maximum size limit on retained halibut. (equates to a 17lb dressed fish)
Staff was directed to look at:
- A range of minimum size limits for the commercial fishery;
- The use of jaw tags in the sport, charter and subsistence fisheries for accounting puposes; and
- The impacts of bycatch, options to reduce the bycatch, and options to mitigate the effect of bycatch taken in one area on another areas.
GOA Halibut PSC Limits
2010 Pacific Halibut Stock Assessment
2010pacifichalibutstockassessment_web
2011 IPHC Staff Preliminary Limit Catch Recommendations
IPHC staff preliminary catch recommendations
Halibut Catch Limits
The IPHC this morning, Jan 29th, announced the 2010 catch limits. They are:
Area 2A .810 Mlbs
Area 2B .7.50 Mlbs
Area 2C .4.40 Mlbs
Area 3A 19.99 Mlbs
Area 3B 9.90 Mlbs
Area 4A 2.33 Mlbs
Area 4B 2.16 Mlbs
Area 4CDE 3.25 Mlbs
Total
Areas 2A and 2B include recreational catch limits
The charter sectors GHL were used for the charter removals before
determining the commercial catch limit in Areas 2C and 3A. The 2C GHL
is 788,000 lbs and the 3A GHL is 3.65Mlbs.
The season dates will be March 6 to November 15, 2010
Areas 3A-4E are all at staff catch limit recommendations. Additional
poundage was provided to Area 2 with 5 Commissioners supporting the
motion and 1 opposed. The opposition was that the overall total catch
limits exceed the staff recommendations overall coastwide total. The
reason for the support for additional poundage in Area 2 was the
acknowledgement that bycatch issues for other areas were having more
of an effect in this area than previously thought.
More information provided later.
The IPHC catch limit comments are posted online.
http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/pubs/annmeet/2010/catlim/catlim2010.htm
12/31/09: Final IPHC comments (317kb PDF file)
12/17/09: IPHC Stock Assessment (5.11mb PDF file)
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Fish Species
Other Groundfish
This section under construction.