NPFMC To Weigh In On Sablefish Catch Overages by Trawlers in Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
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The focus of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council in December is always on setting Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits on the region’s more than twenty species of commercial importance. That process, which includes a partnership between industry and managers that has served as a model for other management bodies, is being tested by recurring catches of sablefish in the trawl sector that exceed that sector’s allowance.
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