Pacific Halibut Management Association of British Columbia

Investing in research, development and fisheries science alongside critical fisheries infrastructure that is essential to the sustainability of the Pacific Halibut Fishery. United States tariffs or significant changes to catch allocations would impose significant damage to harvester revenue, affecting processing, local businesses, and coastal communities. The PHMA seeks to protect the current trade agreement with the United States. The Pacific Halibut Management Association of BC (PHMA) is engaging with the federal government to discuss made-in-BC solutions that protect the mobility of individual quota to allow B.C.’s integrated groundfish fishery to function with transparency of ownership, addressing concentration of access and the sharing of benefits and risks in the fisheries. Preserving the quota mobility that allows the integrated West Coast groundfish fishery to function. The Pacific Halibut Management Association of BC (PHMA) is engaging with the federal government to discuss made-in-BC solutions that protect the mobility of individual quota to allow B.C.’s integrated groundfish fishery to function with transparency of ownership, addressing concentration of access and the sharing of benefits and risks in the fisheries.