Reapportionment of Pacific Whiting and Non-Whiting Fish Species Announced

Summary

The Magnuson-Stevens Act provisions have been updated to reallocate a total of 62.1 metric tons of Pacific whiting and non-whiting fish species, including Darkblotched rockfish, Pacific Ocean Perch, Canary rockfish, and Widow rockfish, from the mothership sector to the catcher/processor sector, effective immediately.

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