Pacific Loggerheads Protected from West Coast Longlines - Oceana

Victory | April 30, 2009

Pacific Loggerheads Protected from West Coast Longlines

The federal Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to maintain a standing prohibition on a West Coast-based high seas longline fishery. The vote will prevent the opening of a new swordfish fishery that would threaten migrating loggerhead sea turtles and other marine wildlife on the high seas of the north Pacific Ocean.