Spex Flex: Pacific Fisheries Management Council Faces Uncertainty Brought By Climate Change
This year, the Pacific Fishery Management Council took major steps toward making groundfish management more flexible and reactive to change. The lessons learned from making these changes to groundfish management may eventually be applied to other fisheries managed by the Council.
The “flexibility in harvest specifications” (“spex flex”) initiative began as part of the routine groundfish workload and new management measure process, and became a focal area of the Council’s adaptive management effort after being pushed forward by public comment...
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