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April 25, 2008
2008 HALIBUT LANDING REPORT NO. 1
Quota
Share Commercial Fisheries Update
The 2008 quota share halibut fisheries opened on March 8. It is
estimated that the following catches and numbers of landings
were made in the Alaskan IFQ fishery and in the British
Columbian IVQ fishery through April 24, 2008. No Alaskan
Community Development Quota (CDQ) landings have been made yet in
2008.
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Area
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Catch
Limit
(000’s
pounds)
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Catch
(000’s
pounds)
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Number
of
Landings
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2C
3A
3B
4
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6,210.0
24,220.0
10,950.0
8,850,0
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1,520
5,599
452
63
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386
445
32
8
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Alaska
total
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50,230.0
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7,634
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871
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2B
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7,917.7
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1,912
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151
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Grand
Total
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58,147.7
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9,546
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1,022
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The catch off Alaska represents 15% of the 2008 catch limit.
For comparison, 6.7 million pounds, or 13% of the 2007 catch
limit, were landed in the Alaskan fishery between March 10 and
April 24, 2007.
The catch from British Columbian waters represents 24% of the
2008 catch limit. For comparison, 3.4 million pounds, or 34% of
the 2007 catch limit, were landed from Area 2B between March 10
and April 24, 2007.
Area 2A Commercial Tribal Fisheries
In 2008, the Pacific Fishery Management Council allocated
397,000 pounds of halibut for commercial use to the Treaty Indian
tribes of Area 2A-1. As of April 24, the Treaty tribes have landed
324,164 pounds of halibut.
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Bruce M. Leaman
Executive Director
Phone: (206) 634-1838
Fax: (206)
632-2983
Web: www.iphc.washington.edu |
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