WPRFMC Calls for Action on Fisheries Issues as 2025 Federal Transition Looms
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC/Council) said it concluded its 201st meeting on an optimistic note ahead of the Federal administration change scheduled for January 2025.
“The Council found that the incoming administration provides a chance to make U.S. fisheries in the Pacific great again,” it wrote in a December 18 press release. WPRFMC handles Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
WPRFMC said that after it landed an increase in longline bigeye tuna quotas last year, US fisheries in the Pacific...
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