The Council voted to remove the effort limit that has kept the Hawaii longline fishery for swordfish operating at half of its historical level of fishing for the past four years. The effort limit was imposed when the fishery reopened in 2004 following a lawsuit focused on the fishery’s interactions with loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles.
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