This is a US initiative, but nonetheless may impact certain areas of Canada - esp. near the Southern border w Washington State. South Island fishermen may be interested in getting involved.
http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploa...pff-april2013-pfmc-ecosystem-plan-release.pdf
Pew Trusts is promoting a campaign to advocate implementation of the new fishery ecosystem plan, that the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) adopted in it’s April 2013 meeting. This plan includes an Unmanaged Forage Fish Protection Initiative.
From the Pew Trusts website: "In the past year, the PFMC http://www.pcouncil.org/ has started to implement an ecosystem-based approach to managing fisheries that will increase protections for these important fish, thanks largely to the fact that the council has heard from thousands of people like you. Encourage the council to finish the job by protecting forage fish now.
For those interested in contributing/advocating - Pew Trusts has posted an online form at:
http://advocacy.pewenvironment.org/...1793&ea.campaign.id=22235&ea.tracking.id=Blog
The PFMC initiative can be reviewed at: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_Initiatives_Appendix_for_web.pdf
From the PFMC website: "The purpose of the Fishery Ecosystem Plan is to enhance the Council’s fishery management with more ecosystem science and to allow broader consideration of ecosystem factors – for example, the food web, climate change, human interactions with fisheries, and habitat. The plan will not replace the Council’s four fishery management plans (for salmon, groundfish, highly migratory species, and coastal pelagic species), but will deliberately insert additional ecosystem science and factors into the decisionmaking on fishing seasons that occurs under those plans. The new Plan also mandates an annual “State of the Ecosystem” report to the Council to be made at March Council meetings each year.
Several new ecosystem initiatives are connected to the plan. The first relates to protecting currently unmanaged forage fish due to their importance in the marine ecosystem. The Council is not pursuing a permanent moratorium on fishing for forage fish; rather it intends to prohibit the development of new, directed fisheries on forage species that are not currently managed by the Council or states, until the impacts of any proposed fishery can be fully understood."
Status report including stock assessment for PACIFIC COAST COASTAL PELAGIC SPECIES FISHERY AND RECOMMENDED ACCEPTABLE BIOLOGICAL CATCHES listed at: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011_CPS_SAFE_Text_FINAL.pdf
amounts forage fishes currently taken as by-catch listed in: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011_CPS_SAFE_tables_Appendix_A_FINAL.pdf
http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploa...pff-april2013-pfmc-ecosystem-plan-release.pdf
Pew Trusts is promoting a campaign to advocate implementation of the new fishery ecosystem plan, that the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) adopted in it’s April 2013 meeting. This plan includes an Unmanaged Forage Fish Protection Initiative.
From the Pew Trusts website: "In the past year, the PFMC http://www.pcouncil.org/ has started to implement an ecosystem-based approach to managing fisheries that will increase protections for these important fish, thanks largely to the fact that the council has heard from thousands of people like you. Encourage the council to finish the job by protecting forage fish now.
For those interested in contributing/advocating - Pew Trusts has posted an online form at:
http://advocacy.pewenvironment.org/...1793&ea.campaign.id=22235&ea.tracking.id=Blog
The PFMC initiative can be reviewed at: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_Initiatives_Appendix_for_web.pdf
From the PFMC website: "The purpose of the Fishery Ecosystem Plan is to enhance the Council’s fishery management with more ecosystem science and to allow broader consideration of ecosystem factors – for example, the food web, climate change, human interactions with fisheries, and habitat. The plan will not replace the Council’s four fishery management plans (for salmon, groundfish, highly migratory species, and coastal pelagic species), but will deliberately insert additional ecosystem science and factors into the decisionmaking on fishing seasons that occurs under those plans. The new Plan also mandates an annual “State of the Ecosystem” report to the Council to be made at March Council meetings each year.
Several new ecosystem initiatives are connected to the plan. The first relates to protecting currently unmanaged forage fish due to their importance in the marine ecosystem. The Council is not pursuing a permanent moratorium on fishing for forage fish; rather it intends to prohibit the development of new, directed fisheries on forage species that are not currently managed by the Council or states, until the impacts of any proposed fishery can be fully understood."
Status report including stock assessment for PACIFIC COAST COASTAL PELAGIC SPECIES FISHERY AND RECOMMENDED ACCEPTABLE BIOLOGICAL CATCHES listed at: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011_CPS_SAFE_Text_FINAL.pdf
amounts forage fishes currently taken as by-catch listed in: http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011_CPS_SAFE_tables_Appendix_A_FINAL.pdf