Groundfish Management: Inseason Adjustments - Pacific Fishery Management Council

We don't fish most groundfish species nearly as hard as we used to. Browsing stock assessments for various groundfish generally shows the same trend: catches in the 1970-1990 period dwarf catches from any other time in the last century. The sheer magnitude of harvest in those years is difficult to comprehend when compared to today's harvest rates.

I searched for lingcod southern stock assessment and bocaccio stock assessment, for reference. The 1970s and 80s were a really bad time to be a lingcod or bocaccio!