Category: News & events

  • Groundfish Advisory Subpanel to meet online February 21, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will convene a webinar meeting its Groundfish Advisory Subpanel (GAP) that is open to the public. This meeting will discuss items on the Pacific Council’s March 2024 meeting agenda and will be held on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The…

  • Ad Hoc Marine Planning Committee to hold online meeting January 23, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Ad Hoc Marine Planning Committee (MPC) will hold an online public meeting. The meeting will be held Tuesday, January 23, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time or until business for the day has been completed.

  • Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee to meet January 26, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will convene a meeting of the Scientific and Statistical Committee’s (SSC) Groundfish Subcommittee (GFSC) to review public comments associated with the 2021 stock assessment and 2023 rebuilding analyses of quillback rockfish off California. The SSC GFSC meeting is open to the public and will be conducted in person…

  • Committee of the Whole meeting January 18-19, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Committee of the Whole (COTW) will hold a two-day in-person work session that is open to the public. The meeting will be held Thursday, January 18 and Friday, January 19, 2024, from 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time until business for each day has been completed.  This meeting is being conducted…

  • Groundfish Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee to hold online meeting January 17-18, 2024

    The Groundfish Subcommittee of the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council’s) Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold a virtual meeting to review the 2023 groundfish stock assessment process and discuss process improvements for the next stock assessment cycle, review proposed revisions to the Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Stock Assessment Review Process for…

  • Highly Migratory Species Management Team to hold online meeting January 22, 25-26, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) will hold an online meeting, which is open to the public. The online meeting will be held Monday, Thursday, and Friday, January 22, 25, and 26, 2024 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific Time, or until business is completed on each…

  • Highly Migratory Species Management Team to hold online meeting January 22, 25-26, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) will hold an online meeting, which is open to the public. The online meeting will be held Monday, Thursday, and Friday, January 22, 25, and 26, 2024 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific Time, or until business is completed on each…

  • Ad Hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup to hold online meeting January 11, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) ad-hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup will hold an online meeting that is open to the public. The meeting will be held Thursday, January 11, 2024 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, or until business for the day concludes. This meeting is being conducted remotely…

  • Salmon Technical Team work session February 20-23, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Salmon Technical Team (STT) will hold a work session February 20-23, 2024, which is open to the public. The meeting will start on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, from 1 p.m. until business for the day is completed, and continues Wednesday, February 21 through Friday, February 23 from 8 a.m.…

  • Salmon Technical Team work session January 16-19, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Salmon Technical Team (STT) will hold a work session January 16-19, 2024, which is open to the public. The meeting will start on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, from 1 p.m. until business for the day is completed, and continues Wednesday, January 17 through Friday, January 19 from 8 a.m.…

  • Groundfish Management Team work session January 29-February 2, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Groundfish Management Team (GMT) will hold a week-long in-person work session that is open to the public.  The GMT meeting will be held Monday, January 29, 2024 from 12:30 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, until business for the day has been completed.  The GMT will reconvene Tuesday, January 30…

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team and Advisory Subpanel and Ecosystem Workgroup to hold online meeting January 22, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT), Coastal Pelagic Species Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS), and Ecosystem Workgroup (EWG) will hold an online public meeting. The meeting will be held Monday, January 22, 2024 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time or until business for the day has been…

  • Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team to hold online meeting January 11, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (CPSMT) will hold an online meeting that is open to the public. The meeting will be held Thursday, January 11, 2024 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time or until business for the day has been completed. This meeting is being conducted…

  • Pacific Halibut Area 2A online meeting January 2, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) will host an online meeting of the Area 2A Pacific halibut governmental management entities that is open to the public. The online meeting will be held Tuesday, January 2, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, or until business for the day has been completed. …

  • Ad Hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup to hold online meeting December 12 and 14, 2023

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) ad-hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup will hold an online meeting that is open to the public. The meeting will be held Tuesday, December 12, 2023 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, or until business for the day concludes,  and if needed, the meeting will…

  • November 2023 Decision Summary Document

    Council Meeting Decision Summary Documents are highlights of significant decisions made at Council meetings. Fishery policy decisions made by the Council are formally transmitted to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as recommendations and are not final until NMFS approval.  Results of agenda items that do not reach a level of highlight significance are typically not described…

  • Preliminary DRAFT November 2023 Motions in Writing

    Cautionary Note — These preliminary motions do not represent the final official administrative record. The motions and amendments contained in this blog are as projected on the screen at the Council meeting at the time of the Council vote and often use expedited language and references without the benefit of any final editing or proofing.…

  • Attention Pacific Council DropBox Subscribers! Pacific Council to Transition from Dropbox to OneDrive on January 1, 2024

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Pacific Council) is pleased to announce that it will be transitioning from Dropbox to OneDrive on January 1, 2024. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to electronic efficiencies and reducing our carbon footprint. OneDrive will not be taking the place of the Briefing Book website but will be…

  • Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup to hold online meeting October 26, 2023

  • November 2023 briefing book

  • Ad Hoc Ecosystem Workgroup to hold online meeting December 4, 2023

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Ad Hoc Ecosystem Workgroup (EWG) will hold an online meeting, which is open to the public. The online meeting will be held Monday, December 4, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific Time, or until business for the day is completed. This meeting is being conducted remotely…

  • Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup to hold online meeting November 20, 2023

    The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) ad hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup (Workgroup) will hold an online meeting that is open to the public. The online meeting will be held Monday, November 20, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, or until business for the day concludes. This meeting is being…

  • Salmon Advisory Subpanel to hold online meeting October 31, 2023

    The primary purpose of the meeting is for the SAS to prepare for the November 2023 Pacific Council meeting.

  • Economics Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee to hold online meeting October 24, 2023

    Economics Subcommittee of the Scientific and Statistical Committee to hold online meeting October 24, 2023 to review the economic analysis associated with sablefish gear switching alternatives being considered by the Pacific Council.