NMFS Announces Changes to Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Trip Limits

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has made adjustments to the trip limits for various species in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery, aiming to achieve optimum yield while protecting overfished and depleted stocks, as authorized by the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). These changes include measures to limit recreational harvests of bocaccio and canary rockfish off California within the 2001 allocations.