Notices and Rules
Amendment 38 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: 2027-2028 Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 38 would remove the rebuilding plans for yelloweye rockfish and California quillback rockfish, as both stocks have been declared rebuilt.
Comments Close
10/22/2026
Commercial and and Recreational Inseason Adjustment of Canary Rockfish Trip Limits for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 2025-2026 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments
Published
05/01/2026
Amendment 35 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Amendment 35 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Published
05/30/2025
Amendment 33 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: 2025-2026 Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 33 of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, 2025-2026 harvest specifications
Published
12/16/2024
Amendment 32 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: Modifications to Non-Trawl Sector Area Management Measures
Modifications to non-trawl sector area management measures for Pacific Coast groundfish
Published
12/01/2023
Amendment 31 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Amendment 31 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP), which proposes to define the geographic units of 20 stocks for 14 species of groundfish, a subset of 80+ species managed by the FMP
Published
11/16/2023
Amendment 30 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan & 2023-2024 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 30 of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, 2023-2024 harvest specifications
- Inseason adjustments to biennial groundfish management measures (89 FR 84296, O…
- Temporary Rule; emergency action extended (89 FR 67326, August 20, 2024)
- Inseason adjustments to biennial groundfish management measures (89 FR 59681, J…
- Temporary rule; emergency action; request for comments (April 1, 2024, 89 FR 22…
- Inseason adjustments to biennial groundfish management measures (April 1, 2024,…
Published
12/16/2022
Salmon Bycatch Minimization Measures for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
Salmon bycatch minimization measures to minimize incidental take of Endangered Species Act-listed salmon by vessels in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery.
Published
02/23/2021
Amendment 29 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan & 2021-2022 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 29 of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan.
Effective
01/01/2021
Amendment 28 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
NOAA Fisheries publishes a final rule on November 19, 2019 (84 FR 63966) implementing changes to area closures for commercial vessels fishing in federal waters off Washington, Oregon, and California, effective January 1, 2020.
Published
11/19/2019