[Captain Jason Colby]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

that is overfished that will rebuild the fishery to Maximum Sustainable yield within a specified time frame. NMFS overseas these requirements and they have rejected Council approved measures that NMFS feels would fail to meet these requirements.

I believe that the heart of the issue is "a fault" (a major fault) in The MS Act is the decree to manage for "Maximum Sustainable Yield". The target should be: "abundance". How can we get that changed?.....JC