Oregon's Sardine Fishery 2007 Summary

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Citation

Originator: Wiedoff, Brett

Publish Date: 2007

Online Link: None

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Contact Information

Agency: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Name: Cedric Cooney

Job Position: Natural Resources Data and Systems Manager

Telephone: 503-947-6094

E-Mail Address: cedric.x.cooney@odfw.oregon.gov

Description

Abstract: In the past sardines were managed by individual states of California, Oregon and Washington. In 1999, Amendment 8 to the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan (formerly the Northern Anchovy Fishery Management Plan) placed Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax), Pacific mackerel (Scomber japonicus), jack mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus), and market squid (Loligo opalescens) in a management unit with northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax). Under the plan, a biomass estimate of sardines and coast-wide harvest guideline is established annually (Table 1). From 1999 to 2001 the coast-wide harvest guideline was allocated 2/3 to the southern California fishery and 1/3 to the northern California (approximately Point Arena, CA), Oregon, and Washington fishery. Then in 2002, the Council adopted an interim allocation system for the 2003-2005 seasons that changed the definition of subareas by moving the geographical boundary between Subarea A and B from 35 degrees 40 minutes to 39 degrees latitude; move the date when unharvested allocation from October 1 to September 1 and change the percent reallocated from 50% to both areas to 20% to Sub area A and 80% to Subarea B and reallocate all unharvest sardine that remains on December 1 coast wide. Discussions to design a new long-term allocation system began in 2004 and in June 2005 the Council approved the new allocation formula for Pacific sardine which released allocations of fish coast wide at three set calendar dates rather than to northern and southern areas. The new allocation framework was implemented for the 2006 Pacific sardine fishery under Amendment 11 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan.

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Time Period of Content: 2007

Geographic Extent: Oregon

Status: Final

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