The International Pacific Halibut Commission has recommended a Canadian harvest quota for the 2012 season of 7.038 million pounds of halibut, a decrease of eight per cent from the 2011 quota of 7.650 million pounds. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has yet to confirm the quota but it routinely follows the IPHC recommendation. The […]
Category: Alaska
According to Alaska media reports, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, meeting in Anchorage, has confirmed an over all cut in Pacific halibut harvest quota of 18 per cent, or 7.5 million pounds for 2012. KMXT, an NPR station in Kodiak, Alaska reports Area 3A, the Gulf of Alaska will experience a 17-percent reduction from last […]
A report prepared by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for this week’s meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission in Anchorage says the controversial program where recreational fishers could buy quota from commercial fishers had only “limited success…with few pounds caught.” The report also says that Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield will be making a […]
Alaska Governor Governor Sean Parnell met with the chief executive officers from BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil on January 5, 2012, to discuss alignment between the three companies on commercializing the North Slope’s vast natural gas reserves. A news release from the governor’s office says Parnell asked “the three companies – the major lease holders […]