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WDFW scientist outlines international salmon monitoring, enforcement work with NPAFC
Summary
Dr. Mara Zimmerman told the Fish Committee that the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) coordinates a 100-year dataset, marking exchanges and enforcement cooperation across five countries, noting IUU fishing has declined but uncertainties remain; staff highlighted recent research estimating Gulf of Alaska standing stocks and large-scale hatchery releases.
Dr. Mara Zimmerman, lead of the fish science division, briefed the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission Fish Committee on April 16 about the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC), saying the international forum coordinates conservation, scientific exchanges and cooperative enforcement across Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States. "There is an agreed upon allocation and that allocation is 0," Zimmerman said, describing the convention’s prohibition on directed fishing for anadromous stocks in international waters.
Zimmerman summarized long-term data and research the commission shares among member countries, including a compiled 100-year commercial-catch time series showing dominant catches of pink, chum and…
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