The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council passed measures on Thursday for the 2015 charter halibut fisheries in Gulf of Alaska sections 2C and 3A.
The changes reflect the decline in halibut stock over the last decade and attempt to take pressure off the species. In 2013 and 2014, both area 2C and area 3A exceeded their allocations for halibut.
Heath Hillyard, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Guides Organization, said the new measures are simply the best of the worst options for charter halibut fishermen.
“I don’t want to be cavalier and say that we’re happy about it,” Hillyard said. “It’s just the least bad of the options we have under allocation we have. It could be worse.”
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