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Council adopts interim preferred stock definition for Pacific sardine, directs coastwide assessment work
Summary
The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to adopt an Interim Final Preferred Alternative redefining Pacific sardine in U.S. waters as a single coastwide stock, and asked staff and NOAA Fisheries to prioritize a coastwide assessment, review harvest control rules, and plan management analyses and advisory-body work this summer and into 2027–2028.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council on April 10 adopted an interim final preferred alternative to revise the Pacific sardine stock definition in the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan, redefining sardine in the U.S. exclusive economic zone as a single coastwide management stock.
Council staff opened the discussion describing newly published genetic and population-structure research that indicates Pacific sardine across the Northeast Pacific show little genetic differentiation. Katrina Bernaus, council staff, said the action’s purpose is to align the Fishery Management Plan’s management unit with the scientific evidence and to set the IFPA so work can begin on a comprehensive…
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