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The Shorebased Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program has been in place more than two years, and there have been some notable changes during the second year of the rationalized fishery.

Non-whiting attainment increased by five percent, from 24 percent in 2011, to 29 percent in 2012. Overall attainment in the fishery decreased by two percent, accompanying a three percent decline in Pacific whiting attainment. Catch of whiting dominates the overall aggregate fishery attainment estimate; this species alone made up 78.5 percent of total catch by weight in the shorebased IFQ fishery during 2012. The reduction in attainment may be tied to reapportionment of whiting late in the season (mid-October). There was no such reapportionment in 2011.