Bottomfish on the Western Pacific Council's SSC Agenda this Week
Scientific advisors to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council are meeting this week, to provide advice and guidance on the main Hawaiian Islands deep-seven bottomfish and Guam bottomfish fishery stock assessments, among other topics, according to the WPRFMC.
MHI Deep-Seven Bottomfish Assessment
The SSC will discuss and evaluate a new benchmark stock assessment model for the MHI bottomfish fishery. The Council’s Hawai‘i Fishery Ecosystem Plan encompasses seven bottomfish species, managed as a species complex. The stock in 2023 is not overfished or ...
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