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POLICY DECISION
| POLICY TITLE:
| Management Objectives For Coastal Dungeness Crab |
POLICY NUMBER: |
POL-C3604 |
| Cancels: |
C-3604 (Effective
11/1/96-8/6/99) |
Effective Date |
August 6, 1999 |
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Termination Date |
(if applicable): |
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Approved by: |
/s/ Kelly D.
White |
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Fish and Wildlife Commission Chair |
DOWNLOAD: Signed
copy of POL-C3604 (PDF) |
Goals
- To protect the reproductive capacity of the stock
- To involve the commercial fishing industry representatives
in the management of the fishery.
- To protect public health
- To maximize the economic benefit from the resource
- To adopt regulations which seek to achieve safe and orderly
fisheries
- To
provide a sustainable Dungeness crab fishery
of high quality product consistent
with the "even flow" legislative mandate
- To provide support to industry buyback initiatives
- To protect Dungeness crab habitat
Policies
- Comply with the federal court order relative to treaty/non-treaty
sharing of coastal shellfish resources
- Manage the fishery to primarily benefit the commercial fishery
- Cooperate with other states' fish and wildlife agencies
- Seek
to achieve a fair and equitable distribution across industry
sectors
of the effects resulting from the design and
implementation of "even flow" management measures
- Manage the coastal Dungeness crab fishery consistent with
the preferred alternative in the Even Flow Harvest Management
Plan.
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