The North Pacific Fishery Management Council held a special chum salmon bycatch, primarily to review the preliminary draft Environmental Impact Statement (PDEIS or EIS) for new approaches to chum salmon bycatch management in the Bering Sea pollock trawl fishery, with a prioritization on reducing bycatch of Western Alaska chum salmon.
Tribal Information Session on October 2023 NPFMC Meeting
NPFMC To Discuss Salmon Bycatch in April 2023
Salmon Bycatch Committee Meeting: January 25, 2023
"Every Fish Counts": Salmon Bycatch Committee Recap
NPFMC to Discuss Salmon Bycatch in December 2022
NPFMC Salmon Bycatch Committee Formed
Nominations Open for Salmon Bycatch Committee
Fishery managers call for deeper look at salmon bycatch, but decline to tighten rules
The Council declined to impose any new bycatch rules that would affect the current season. Instead, they approved what members characterized as a rigorous research program to include the formation of a working group with tribal representatives and others from affected communities.