Updates

Ad Hoc Marine Planning Committee to hold online work session Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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2022 Council-adopted salmon season tables

The Council-adopted salmon management tables are available by visiting our salmon preseason process and management webpage. These tables were adopted at the Council’s March 2022 meeting.

Please keep in mind the tables are DRAFT until published in Preseason Report II (Preseason Report II is tentatively scheduled for publication on or around March 22).

The Fishery Ecosystem Plan

In March 2022, the Council adopted the revised Fishery Ecosystem Plan, the culmination of a 5-year review process initiated in 2018.

We envision a thriving and resilient California Current Ecosystem that continues to provide benefits to current and future generations and supports livelihoods, fishing opportunities, and cultural practices that contribute to the wellbeing of fishing communities and the nation.

Goals and objectives

The California Current Ecosystem is shaped by:

  • Dynamic ocean forces like currents, upwelling, and water temperature; 
  • High biodiversity, with dramatic seasonal shifts in predator and prey populations;
  • Diverse human uses of and priorities for estuaries, coastal communities, and the sea.
Learn more about the ecosystem

The Council uses its Fishery Ecosystem Plan to better understand how environmental variability and change, human activities, and social-ecological dynamics affect the future of the ecosystem.  Developing our understanding of how those interacting forces affect the species and fisheries we manage helps us meet our goals and objectives for the ecosystem.

Activities affecting the ecosystem

A science-based natural resource management process must be supported by ongoing scientific research and analyses.  Bringing ecosystem science into the Council process helps us understand how individual species are affected by the environment, and how our wide variety of species interact with each other and the people that depend on them.

Ecosystem Science in Support of Management

PRELIMINARY DRAFT MARCH 2022 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. They may use short-hand language or abbreviations that may not be clear without the context of verbal comments and clarifications made during their development at the meeting, or may contain inadvertent transposition errors. They have not been approved by the Council to represent the final official record of Council action. The final official record will be posted on the Council website after the Council approves the full meeting record at a future Council meeting.

Notice of availability: Preseason Report I – Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2022 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations

Preseason Report I is the second report in an annual series of four reports prepared by the Salmon Technical Team of the Pacific Fishery Management Council to document and help guide ocean fishery salmon management off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. The report focuses on Chinook, coho, and pink salmon stocks that have been important in determining Council fisheries in recent years, and on stocks listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with established National Marine Fisheries Service ESA consultation standards. This report will be formally reviewed at the Council’s March 2022 meeting.

Please visit the Council’s salmon documents webpage to download Preseason Report I:  Stock Abundance Analysis and Environmental Assessment Part 1 for 2022 Ocean Salmon Fishery Regulations (Published March 2022).