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Calendar for March


6 Whidbey Island General Meeting 

7 South Sound General Meeting  

13 Gig Harbor General Meeting  

13 North Kitsap General Meeting 

13 Renton General Meeting 

 13 Sno-King General Meeting    

19 Fidalgo - San Juan Islands General  Meeting

20 South King County  


20 North Olympic Peninsula General Meeting   John Beath will be our speaker at the March 20 chapter meeting.  He'll be sharing his knowledge on catching halibut in our local waters.

?? Eastside General Meeting 

21 Everett General Meeting 

21 Bellingham General Meeting  

27 Save Our Fish 

Ocean Anglers General Meeting  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Presidents Message for March

 Well here we are in the month of March already. Time is flying by. The Seattle Boat Show and Puyallup sportsman show booths had great attendance with a lot of people stopping by or PSA booths to say hi or see what we are about. It was great to meet new people and their families and talk fishing and what we are doing as a fishing organization. Thanks to all that came by and joined our chapters. 

North of Falcon is getting started where we will find out the amount of fish available and split them up between tribes, commercials, and recreational. When we have a lot of fish to split, the fishing seasons usually are better. We have been at the forefront of making more fish. We joined with the tribes to continue to do so. We have a long ways to go to get back to more open seasons.

Last year we had incredible returns. I believe we will have this again this year but really need this El Nino to break up and go away. Think of how fat these salmon were this past year. These are descendants of the blog survivors. Remember how scrawny these fish were? 2-4 pounds. Now the ocean conditions rebounded and so did the fish with them. Its amazing the resiliency of these fish if conditions are right.

Please make sure you get your kids and grandkids out on the water this year so they can understand how much fishing and our beautiful outdoors are to our area. When they experience what we have, it will give them the desire to keep and protect what we have for their children. We live in one of the best places in the world. Join your local PSA chapter and help with some of our net pen projects.


·         Ron Garner President PSA    

 

 

Point Nopoint Fiasco

 

 

Pod cast on Ocra Whales with Butch Smith from Coho Charters    

 

 

Article on Salmon and Damvs    

 

 

Protecting Washington’s Yelloweye Rockfish 

 

 

Rockfish Identification Flyer    

 

 

Video - Rockfish are back!!

 

 

Did you know that some yelloweye rockfish that are here today were Washington residents before it became a state in 1889? They have been and continue to be an important part of our heritage.

 

 

Halibut and bottomfish fishing have also been a part of Washington’s culture for hundreds of years. Many generations of fishermen have relied on halibut and bottomfish for food and recreation.

 

 

Fishery Management

 

 

A recent stock assessment indicates that the yelloweye rockfish population has declined over 80% from its initial level.  As a result, immediate action must be taken if the stocks of these long-lived fish are to be rebuilt. 

 

 

To rebuild yelloweye rockfish populations, the harvest opportunities for this species must be severely curtailed.  In recent years, the Pacific Fishery Management Council has set yelloweye rockfish harvest levels for all commercial, recreational, and tribal fisheries combined for California, Oregon, and Washington of about 17 metric tons (mt). This number includes yelloweye rockfish that are discarded at sea.

 

 

The Washington recreational harvest target is about 2.7 mt (fewer than 1,000 fish) in coastal waters.  To put this in perspective, in 2001, the Washington recreational fishery harvested 15 mt.

 

 

Halibut Fishery in Jeopardy 

 

 

Yelloweye rockfish, in general, are harvested during the Washington recreational halibut fishery.  If the yelloweye rockfish catch is projected to exceed 2.7 mt, then Pacific ocean waters adjacent to Washington outside 25 fathoms will be closed to recreational bottomfish fishing (including halibut). 

 

 


 

 

 

If yelloweye rockfish cannot be avoided when anglers are targeting halibut, then we may have to close recreational halibut fishing in the future to protect yelloweye rockfish.  Because the yelloweye rockfish stock may not be rebuilt for over 100 years, the problem of managing the yelloweye fishery will continue through our lifetime; however, you have the ability to help save the halibut fishery now and preserve the yelloweye resource for the future.

 

 

Yelloweye Rockfish Facts: 

 

 

·         Live to be 120 years old

 

 

·         Range extends from Mexico to Alaska

 

 

·         Found in deeper, rocky bottom areas

 

 

·         Slow growing,low productive species

 

 

·         Reddish-orange in color with bright yelloweye

 

 

·         Commonly called "red snapper"

 

 

·         Often spend their entire lifetime on one rockpile

 

 

How You Can Help  

 

 

·         If you are participating in the recreational halibut or bottomfish fishery, please avoid areas that are known to have yelloweye rockfish.

 

 

·         If you do accidentally catch a yelloweye, please return to the water s soon as possible.

 

 

·         Help spread the word to others about the severity of the yelloweye rockfish depleted population and the possible consequences of not avoiding yelloweye areas

 

 

·         If you do not know what areas may have yelloweye rockfish, please consult a local resort, motel, or charter office or other expert before fishing

 

 

Great rockfish recompression video

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZFghwVOyI 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 RFA Washington 

 

 

  

 

 

PSA State Board Meeting  

 

 

Saturday

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start Time is 9:00am

 

 

 

 

Port Of Edmonds Administration Office rear of building at the top of stairs  

 

 

336 Admiral Way  

 

 

Edmonds, WA 98020  

 

 

 

 

 

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