Here is a link to pictures to include a great one of an elephant seal scarfing down a bocaccio - just sliding it down the throat and not looking a bit guilty that it is a threatened fish species!

http://seapics.com/feature-subject/fish/bocaccio-pictures.html

Slowleak posted the Plan's preferred management approach:

"All fisheries in Puget Sound waters will be managed to ensure the health and productivity of all rockfish populations."

Bocaccio is the species found by NOAA to be endangered with the other two being threatened. According to NOAA's findings and the draft plan Bocaccio has always been in extremely small numbers in P.S. Although it matures quickly (4-6 years) and egg production increases with age/size it's overall spawning success is poor. As with most of the rockfish it has intermittent successful spawns. Apparently Bocaccio are less successful than the others and spawning is highly susceptible to environmental conditions. NOAA had no records of these fish being seen in P.S for years and suggested that this species may have been extirpated (as in gone!). So, how does the State plan on managing to ensure the health and productivity of this species? Oh, it is also a deep water species found at 50 meters and deeper.