Sunday, January 31, 2010

2010 halibut catch limits, season dates set

The International Pacific Halibut Commission, meeting in Seattle, on Friday set catch limits and season dates for the 2010 fishery.

The six-member commission broke from the recommendations of its scientific staff in setting an overall limit of 50.67 million pounds, 1.97 million pounds higher than the staff advised.

For Southeast Alaska (Area 2C), commissioners set a catch limit of 4.4 million pounds, a 12.4 percent cut.

That's actually good news for Southeast fishermen, who were facing a 26.1 percent cut under the staff recommendation. The catch limit in Southeast has declined steeply in recent years.

The season will open at noon March 6 and close at noon Nov. 15. The start date is 15 days earlier than last year.

Here are the catch limits by area, expressed in millions of pounds:






































































Regulatory areaIPHC approved 2009 limitsIPHC approved 2010 limits% change
2A0.950.81-14.7
2B7.637.5-1.7
2C5.024.4-12.4
3A21.719.99-7.9
3B10.99.9-9.2
4A2.552.33-8.6
4B1.872.16+15.5
4CDE3.463.58+3.5
TOTAL54.0850.67-6.3


For a map of IPHC regulatory areas, click here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your blog is great, thanks for all the updates. -Brian

ANGRYCRABBER said...

by-catch #'s at http://seacops.com/ link down and to the RIGHT.

Anonymous said...

Trawlers should be paying IFQ/Charter operators for the halibut they are dumping overboard and forced to clean up their criminal behavior. Trawlers MUST have 100% observer coverage...enough with the excuses JULIE B We are tired of the B.S.

ANGRYCRABBER said...

I Second the above Statement and DEMAND JUSTICE TO BE SERVED. ALL LIABLE PARTIES MUST BE HELD FULLY ACCOUNTABE TO THE LAW!! j.b. SMELLS AWFULL Fishy,.. and NOT in a GOOD WAY!!