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 […]
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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 […]
Environment Fishery A number of media outlets in Alaska are reporting that at today's meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission, scientists have said that the population can only sustain harvest quotas at half the current level. The story comes mainly from the Kodiak Daily Mirror, with additional information from other media outlets. There is […]