2012 IPHC Annual Meeting

The Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission was held from Tuesday, January 24 through Friday, January 27, 2012.

• Results of the 2012 Annual Meeting
• Annual Meeting Handout (Bluebook, pdf, 4.9 MB)
• Regulations Proposal Form (MS-Word; pdf; deadline November 10, 2011); Proposals received to date
• Catch Limit Comment Form (MS-Word; pdf; deadline December 30, 2011); Comments received to date
• Schedule of Sessions
• Public Session I Presentations
  • The 2011 Halibut Fishery (view presentation)
  • Analysis of the impacts of potential minimum size limit changes (view presentation)
  • Harvest policy considerations on retrospective bias and biomass projections (view presentation)
  • Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) development (view presentation)
  • 2011 Halibut Assessment (view presentation)
  • 2012 IPHC Staff Regulatory Proposals (view presentation)
• Conference Board and Processor Advisory Group Reports
  • Draft Conference Board Report
  • Processor Advisory Group Annual Meeting Report
• Public Session II
  • 2012 Catch Limits and Proposals
  • 2012 Public Session II Recording
• Information Sheets
  • Navigating the Annual Meeting
  • IPHC Advisory Bodies - Who Are They?
  • Halibut Terminology and Acronyms
  • Who is the IPHC?
  • How Are Halibut Catch Limits Determined?

2011 IPHC Annual Meeting

The Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission was held from Tuesday, January 25 through Friday, January 28, 2011.

• Results of the 2011 Annual Meeting
• Staff Presentations
  • The 2010 Halibut Fishery
  • The 2010 Pacific Halibut Stock Assessment
  • Biomass projections using alternative methods and assumptions
  • Migration and impacts of bycatch and wastage mortality
  • 2011 IPHC Staff Catch Limit Recommendations
• Annual Meeting photos
• Annual Meeting Handout (Bluebook, pdf, 6.9 MB)
• 2011 Catch Limit Comments
• 2011 Regulation Proposals

2010 IPHC Annual Meeting

The Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission was be held from Tuesday, January 26 through Friday, January 29, 2010 at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront.

• Results of the 2010 Annual Meeting
• Schedule of sessions
• Presentations
  • The 2009 Halibut Fishery
  • Deployment, recovery, and reporting of pop-up archival transmitting tags to study interannual dispersal and seasonal migration timing in Regulatory Area 4
  • 2009 Workshops
  • Effect of migration on lost yield, lost spawning biomass, and lost egg production due to U32 bycatch and U32 wastage of Pacific halibut
  • Adjusting IPHC setline survey WPUE for survey timing, hook competition and station depth
  • Assessment of the Pacific halibut stock at the end of 2009
  • IPHC Staff regulatory proposals: 2010
• 2010 Annual Meeting Handout (Bluebook) (pdf, 1.7 MB)
  • Assessment of the Pacific halibut stock at the end of 2009 (revised 2/10/10)
  • IPHC Staff regulatory proposals: 2010 (revised 2/10/10)

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