• The Wheel Watch further reports the North Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider changing the legal age to own individual fishing quotas from 18 years old to 16. "This has been an issue as first-generation holders pass and leave their QS (quota share) to children or grandchildren," the newsletter says.
• A prominent voice on the North Pacific Council has retired. Bill Tweit was the Washington state representative on the council for 20 years, and was vice chair. His replacement is Nate Pamplin, another Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife official.
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Those seiners deck loading 3 times a day on Sockeye and Pinks in Area 7 & 7A yesterday made for some hot fishing, with sockeye escapements at 2 million instead of the predicted 390,000 for the August 1st early sockeye run at the Mission hydroacoustics site, with another Frasier Panal meeting today.
Pamplin appointment letter:
https://meetings.npfmc.org/CommentReview/DownloadFile?p=7930085f-2556-4478-a208-0fbc70db985a.pdf&fileName=B1%20Pamplin%20Appointment%20Letter%20NPFMC%20July%202025.pdf
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