Study examines NOAA catch shares

2012-03-28T11:06:00

A gopher rockfish, one of many rockfish species included in the West Coast groundfish fishery. Credit: S. Lonhart/SIMoN

In 2011, the US West Coast groundfish trawl fleet transitioned to the catch shares management system, which guarantees fishery participants a percentage of the total allowable catch for each species in the fishery.

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