Note that concerns about rockfish have closed the South Sound and Hood Canal. It’s time to put Marine Protection Areas into play. – Ed.
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The sports halibut fishing season will be four days longer in Puget Sound and more fish will be available for harvest early in the season off the state’s southern coast under 2012 catch quotas adopted by the International Pacific Halibut Commission.
To protect dwindling populations of three rockfish species, there will be no halibut fishing allowed this season in the South Sound. This is the third year in a row halibut fishing has been closed in marine areas 11 and 13. Hood Canal also will be closed this year.
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/03/25/2081434/puget-sound-halibut-season-extended.html#storylink=cpy