Sacramento River Winter Chinook Salmon Harvest Control Rule for Fisheries Managed Under the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan

The Proposed Action is to adopt a harvest control rule to identify appropriate impact levels to SRWC from Council-managed salmon fisheries beginning in 2018 and to implement that control rule through notice-and-comment rulemaking. This harvest control rule would be analyzed in a biological opinion conducted under section 7 of the ESA and would be used to develop guidance to the Council in formulating annual management measures for ocean salmon fisheries. No significant impacts to protected species are anticipated.

NMFS West Coast Region expects to provide guidance to the Pacific Fishery Management Council on fishery impacts to ESA-listed species prior to the regularly scheduled March Council meeting (March 7-14, 2018).