To order hardcopies of these documents, please
contact the IPHC.
Annual Meetings
Documents are also produced for our Annual Meetings in January. These include the
Bluebook, which contains the Meeting agenda and staff
presentations, and the Staff Regulatory Proposals which list catch limit and
regulation change recommendations for the coming year. Only the 1996-Present
documents are currently available.
Pacific Halibut: Flat or Fiction?
Our special publication by Lauri Sadorus and Birgit Soderlund is now
in stock again and we are in the process of filling back-orders. If you
represent an institution of learning and would like more copies, please contact
Laura at the IPHC office (206) 634-1838 ext 201.
In the meantime, check out the IPHC Kids'
Corner!
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Outside Publications
Our staff has also published papers outside of the Commission. Lists of these
works are available, ordered by author or by year.
For more general halibut information, Commission biologist Calvin Blood co-authored a
pamphlet with Alaska Sea Grant's Doug Coughenower entitled Flat Out Facts about
Halibut (1997).
Graduate student Robert Ames and Commission biologist Gregg Williams,
in association with S.M. Fitzgerald, have produced a National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Technical Memorandum: Using
Digital Video Monitoring Systems in Fisheries: Application for Monitoring
Compliance of Seabird Avoidance Devices and Seabird Mortality in Pacific
Halibut Longline Fisheries (NMFS-AFSC-152).
IPHC staff members Kelly Van Wormer and Tracee Geernaert have
co-authored a report with Washington Sea Grant's Ed Melvin and Kim
Dietrich entitled The Distribution of
Seabirds on Alaskan Longline Fishing Grounds: 2002 Data Report.

Non-IPHC Halibut Goods
In addition to "Flat Out Facts...", Alaska Sea Grant has also
produced a number of publications and a video pertaining to Pacific halibut. These
include: