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POLICY DECISION
| POLICY TITLE:
| Hood Canal Shrimp Fishery |
POLICY NUMBER: |
POL-C3008 |
| Cancels: |
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Effective Date |
January 4, 1997 |
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Termination Date |
(if applicable): |
| See Also: |
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Approved by: |
/s/ Lisa Pelly |
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Fish and Wildlife Commission Chair |
DOWNLOAD: Signed
copy of POL-C3008 (PDF) |
The following management objectives for the Hood Canal shrimp
fishery are:
- Determine total allowable catch (TAC) using preseason stock
assessment results.
- Provide for annual juvenile and spawning stock escapement
through pot design and season length.
Provide a quality recreational shrimp fishing experience.
- Structure the fishery to meet the needs of both local and
non-local participants while considering the effects on the
business infrastructure that relies on fishing participants.
- Provide adequate public notice of fishing seasons.
- Maintain good catch rates.
Provide a season structure that meets inseason catch accounting
and management needs.
- Season structure should attempt to provide a minimum of four
fishing days.
- Fishery structures should provide several days between open
days when it is established that more than 50 percent of the
recreational TAC has been harvested.
Manage the fishery consistent with state/tribal allocation requirements
as determined by federal court order.
- Monitor recreational fishery harvest totals to assure that
50 percent of the TAC is not exceeded.
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