PFMC has its own criteria and objectives for conservation. Season setting and harvest guidelines/quotas are intended to meet WDFW's conservation objectives each year.

There are other specific criteria that determine when there has been "overfishing" or when a stock has been "overfished" over multiple years that are not part of the states annual conservation objectives.
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"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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