Can a sport groundfish cap be changed inseason?
In general, sport groundfish caps cannot be changed inseason, but there are some exceptions. 1) Yelloweye rockfish and canary rockfish are managed with harvest guidelines and harvest targets. For each of these species, Oregon and Washington share a regional harvest guideline, and each state’s share of the guideline is its harvest target. If Oregon or Washington anticipates reaching its harvest target and the other state does not, the shares can be redistributed between the two states by mutual agreement. Without mutual agreement, however, the harvest target cannot be changed inseason. In any case, the harvest guideline (that is, the combined Oregon-Washington limit) is not to be exceeded, unless authorized by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). 2) If PFMC anticipates that a portion of a harvest guideline will go unused, then PFMC may transfer some of the unused portion to a fishery that may otherwise need to close due to attainment of a limit. Oregon anglers benefited from t
