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Alaska halibut bycatch rule survives legal challenge

'We implemented abundance-based management of halibut bycatch in the non-pollock groundfish trawl fishery in 2024 and we are pleased to have this litigation behind us" -- Jon Kurland, Alaska Regional Administrator for NOAA Fisheries

By Jacob Resneck | Jan. 13, 2025 17:44 GMT
Amendment 80 vessels in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Photograph courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Abundance-based restrictions on halibut bycatch for the non-pollock US trawl fleet are the law of the land. That's following an appeal deadline that expired Jan. 7 to continue an unsuccessful legal challenge brought by the Amendment 80 industry group objecting to hard caps in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea.  [...]

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