Would you like to work with PFMC on tuna / HMS ?

[Mark Mc]

This is the follow-up to a recent post regarding the potential for sport tuna limits.

The purpose of this post.....is a solicitaion to pull together a group of people who would like to be involved in the PFMC process around highly migratory species (HMS), especially albacore. I have already heard from a number of people on this so thank you to those folks!

This group will be working in a constructive, participative, respectful way with our PFMC reps.

If you are interested, please send me a PM.

If you have questions about it, please send me a PM.

If you would like to continue the on-line conversation / debate about this issue, please use the existing thread:

HERE

And as a reminder, at the tunaholics convention in Newport on Feb 18th there will be a panel discussion on how the PFMC works, and a conversation specifically about tuna & the HMS plan & management. We will have several PFMC and ODFW reps in attendance

Thanks much....... Mark

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If you have the interest & desire to read up on HMS and the PFMC, here are some references & background:
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The PFMC has a "triangular" structure with (1) the primary council which has VOTING authority (i.e. the final decision makers); (2) the specific management teams, which focus on the science related to the particular fishery (and are non-voting), and (3) the advisory subpanels which represent the constituents, and provide guidance / input to the management teams (non-voting).

Albacore fall under the Highly Migratory Species (HMS) management advisory bodies. There is an advosory subpanel:

HMS Advisory Subpanel

and a management team:

HMA Management Team

Summary of the HMS management structure, with links to the plan, contacts, etc:
http://www.pcouncil.org/hms/hmsback.html


"how the fisheries management process works"
http://www.psmfc.org/recfin/lib/2002/nutshell.pdf

[Mark Mc]

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