Support Pacific Island Fisheries

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

NMFS is proposing a regulatory framework to set annual catch and retention limits for striped marlin in the Western and Central North Pacific Ocean, consistent with international fisheries commission standards. It'd cap U.S. catches at 393.4 metric tons in 2026 and prohibit longline vessels from retaining additional marlin once the retention limit is hit. This primarily affects commercial longline fishing operations permitted under Hawaii's limited entry program.

In the agency’s own words

NMFS proposes a framework to determine catch limits for all U.S. fisheries and retention limits by U.S. longline fisheries under a Hawaii longline limited entry permit for Western and Central North Pacific Ocean (WCNPO) striped marlin (Kajikia audax), consistent with Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) 2024-06. If the retention limit is reached, NMFS proposes to prohibit longline retention of WCNPO striped marlin by longline fishing vessels until the end of the year to prevent the U.S. catch limit from being exceeded. Because the U.S. limit under the…

Federal Register 2026-08502 ↗

The groups on this fight

2 groups predicted likely to care in Hawaii

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Hawaii, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Hawaii: They work only in Hawaii.

• National Tropical Botanical Garden

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Hawaii: Hawaii is one of the 2 states they work in.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

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In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.