Newsletters and press releases

Press releases

• Merrick Burden Named New Executive Director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (October 2021)
• April 4-10 Council meeting, advisory body meetings, and March salmon public hearings will be held by webinar
• Council develops alternatives for 2020 West Coast salmon seasons
• Council plans changes to halibut fishery (July 2019)
• Council adopts major changes to West Coast groundfish fishery (April 2018)
• West Coast salmon season dates set (April 2018)
• Council chooses options for 2018 salmon season (March 2018)
• Pacific ocean perch rebuilt (December 2017)
• Bocaccio and darkblotched rockfish rebuilt (June 2017)
• West Coast salmon season dates set (April 2017)
• Council recommends electronic monitoring program for some West Coast groundfish fisheries (April 2017)
• Sardine fishery closed for third year in a row (April 2017)
• Council begins review of trawl catch share program (August 2016)
• Council begins review of groundfish trawl catch share program with public hearings (August 2016)
• New Council members appointed (June 2016)
• Chuck Tracy named new Executive Director of Pacific Fishery Management Council (June 2016)
• NOAA Head Kathryn Sullivan visits Council (April 2016)
• Salmon season dates set for 2016 (April 2016)
• Council chooses options for 2016 salmon season (March 2016)
• Council adopts salmon seasons coastwide (April 2015)