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California Adopts Pink Shrimp Management Plan 
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California Adopts Pink Shrimp Management Plan 

The California Fish and Game Commission has adopted the state’s first-ever Pink Shrimp Fishery Management Plan, with a goal of reducing bycatch and protecting seafloor habitats.  The plan, which was approved April 19, establishes a harvest control rule for the fishery, a requirement for the use of footrope lighting devices to aid in bycatch reduction, a procedure to standardized reporting of pink shrimp weight at the time of landing and removes ambiguity about the legality of pink shrimp trawling in state waters.  Pink shrimp support valuable commercial fisheries from California to Washington and range from southeast Alaska to Baja California but are most abundant from Point Arguello, in Santa Barbara County, California to British Columbia. It is thought that a single genetic sto...