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Council adopts 2027–28 interim groundfish specs, amends chili-pepper ACLs and prioritizes trawl follow-up to reduce monitoring costs
Summary
The council adopted interim 2027–28 groundfish harvest specifications with selected alternative harvest-control rules for several species and approved an amendment to set chili-pepper ACLs to default levels. It also prioritized trawl program follow-on work (observer/EM, shoreside monitoring and cost recovery) and folded those actions into risk-management and follow-on packages for staff to scope.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council moved on a package of interim harvest specifications for the 2027–2028 biennium and agreed a set of follow-on trawl-program actions to address industry monitoring costs and program efficiency.
On harvest specifications, council staff and the Scientific and Statistical Committee presented provisional OFLs and ABCs and explained alternative harvest-control rules (HCRs) under consideration. Advisory bodies (GAP and GMT) recommended default HCRs for most stocks and alternative HCRs for a handful of species to smooth abrupt ACL changes. After discussion, council member Lynn Mattis moved to adopt the default HCR for most stocks and Alternative 2 HCRs for the species listed in the motion; the…
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