The IPHC Finished their meeting this morning and adopted the following catch limits as listed in the table below.
The adopted limits include an overall reduction coastwide of -4.5% with both Canada and the US sector taking an equal cut but the IPHC regulatory areas in the US had varying degrees of cut based on individual area biological data.
The Halibut and Sable fish fishery will open on March 15th and close Dec 7th. The IPHC changed the start and closing time to 6:00AM and 11:59pm.
2024 IPHC Adopted Harvest Table 1.26.24
On regulatory proposal that was adopted will specify that you must submit your logbook data to the Commission within 30 days of the end of the season if it wasn’t handed off to the Commission already (port sampler).