HMS stock assessment and fishery evaluation (SAFE) documents

The current SAFE document is maintained online and accessed on this page. An archive (pdf) version is created at the end of each year, compiling the online content except for commercial and recreational catch, landings, and revenue tables.

Current SAFE Report

1. Introduction
2. Council HMS activities
3. FMP regulatory framework
4. Description of fisheries and statistical summaries of catch, revenue and effort
   • Commercial fisheries descriptions
   • Commercial fishery landings by species
   • Summaries of commercial fishery catch, revenue, and effort (PacFIN data)
   • Recreational Fishery description and summary of catch and effort
   • U.S.-Canada Albacore Treaty data exchange tables
   • Pacific-wide HMS catch
5. Status of HMS stocks
6. Research and resources

Archive copies

• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2021 Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (November 2022)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2020 Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (April 2021)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2019, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2020)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2018, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2019)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2017, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2018)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2015, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2017)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2014, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2016)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2013, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (January 2015)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2012, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2013)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2011, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2012)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2010, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2011)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2009, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2010)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2008, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (October 2009)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2007, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (October 2008)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2006, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2007)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2005, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (September 2006)
• Status of the U.S. West Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species through 2004, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (October 2005)