Federal Fishery Council Votes to Quickly Close this Season’s Pacific Sardine Fishery - Oceana USA

Victory | April 15, 2015

Federal Fishery Council Votes to Quickly Close this Season’s Pacific Sardine Fishery

Responding to concerns over a crashing Pacific sardine population, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (“Council”) voted this afternoon to close the commercial sardine fishery off the U.S. West Coast for the remainder of the current season. Oceana applauds the Council for responding quickly to concerns of overfishing, and the dire effects inflicted on marine wildlife due to the lack of prey.