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Council adopts guidance to develop adaptive‑management action plan; prioritizes groundfish as test case
Summary
The council unanimously approved guidance directing staff to develop an action plan for tools and processes that increase the council's ability to respond to rapid environmental change, and to pilot work in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Wednesday adopted a guidance statement asking staff to develop an action plan to explore and implement tools to increase flexibility and responsiveness in council decision making, and to prioritize the groundfish fishery as an initial test case.
The council’s action follows a staff overview of an "adaptive management" special project funded under the Inflation Reduction Act. The project seeks to identify procedural and analytical changes — such as programmatic NEPA…
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