{"id":5676,"date":"2013-10-28T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/10\/28\/hawaiian-fishing-restrictions-to-be-removed\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:35:00","slug":"hawaiian-fishing-restrictions-to-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/hawaiian-fishing-restrictions-to-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian fishing restrictions to be removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting in Honolulu last week, the Council also encourage the State to consider removing all BRFAs in State waters.<\/p>\n<p>The State\u2019s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) established the BRFAs in 1998 after a federal assessment revealed main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) Bottomfish stocks were approaching an \u2018over-fished\u2019 condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Council\u2019s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) has now questioned the utility of the closed areas given the current State-federal coordinated management of the Bottomfish fishery for seven deep-water species.<\/p>\n<p>The MHI Bottomfish fishery is deemed healthy by stock assessments with no overfishing occurring thanks to mandatory annual catch limits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the SSC has suggested that data collection, monitoring, stock assessments and cooperative research with the fishing industry be carried out prior to the opening of any BRFAs.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii\u2019s MHI Bottomfish Working Group is due to meet soon to address these objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is calling on the State of Hawaii to remove its Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Areas (BRFAs) located in federal waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}