Written Comments for SALMON Season Alternatives due to PFMC by April 2
Public & Written comments
CALL TO ACTION: Get your written comments into the PFMC Council before their next meeting on April 5. Your comments need to be in by April 2! Comments should be regarding the two salmon season fishing date alternative options or the third option to close the 2024 salmon season to protect the species. Your written comments will be public and read by Council Members to recommend to CDFW.
- Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment part 2 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations, click here.
The Council needs to receive your comments on the proposed management alternatives in preparation for adopting final salmon management recommendations at the April 5, 2024 Council meeting.
Public comment will be accepted in person at the hearing, and written comments (DEADLINE APRIL 2) can be submitted electronically via e-portal in advance of the April 5-11 PFMC Council meetings. To comment on SALMON, find Agenda Items E2 and E6 and sign up to insert your written comment.
- Comment on what alternative option you would want to see for the 2024 season: Option 1, or Option 2, or Option 3 (closure to protect the species)
- Download the Salmon Technical Team (STT) Report PDF file from the PFMC meeting, CLICK HERE
PFMC Contacts
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids for PFMC meetings should be directed to Kris Kleinschmidt at 503-820-2412 at least ten business days prior to the hearing date.
For further information about the work session, please contact PFMC staff Robin Ehlke at 503-820-2410; toll-free 1-866-806-7204, extension 410.
– PFMC Staff Contacts: CLICK HERE
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
James Stone’s Presentation to the PFMC Council via video from YouTube, CLICK HERE or CLICK HERE to download HIS POWERPOINT FILE
- LIST OF ALTERNATIVES: Salmon Hearing Packet 2024
- 2023 Preseason Report/Proposed Alternatives: CLICK HERE
- Past NEWS BLOG post on Alternatives: CLICK HERE
- A letter from the Coastal Conservation Association
Or you can make your feelings know directly to CDFW’s Ocean Salmon managers at the CDFW Ocean Salmon Project: CLICK HERE
Email: oceansalmon@wildlife.ca.gov or fillable form, Click Here
Ocean SALMON regulations preseason calendar of events, click here.
- Ms. Marci Yaremko
California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Ocean Salmon Project; & the CDFW Director’s Designee to advise the PFMC on salmon
3883 Ruffin Road, San Diego, CA 92123
Telephone: (858) 442-3004 - Ms. Kandice Morgenstern
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
3637 Westwind Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Telephone: (707) 494-4621
