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Article: Council updates: news from the regional management councils: Pacific.(Brief article)
- Article from:
- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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NMFS has approved Amendment 1 to the Pacific Fishery Management Council's management plan for highly migratory species, which speaks (as does the Western Pacific Council's Amendment 14) to curtailing overfishing of bigeye tuna.
The amendments are expected to end bigeye overfishing and will be implemented through the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission and the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries ...