Meetings Announcements
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Stock Assessment Modeling Workshop will be conducted May 15-17, 2018 at the Renaissance Providence-Downtown, in Providence, Rhode Island. The assessment will evaluate the condition of Atlantic striped bass stocks from Maine to North Carolina and inform management of those stocks. The workshop is open to the public, with the exception of discussion of confidential data when the public will be asked to leave the room. For alternate models to be considered, the model description, model input, and complete source code must be provided to Dr. Katie Drew, Stock…
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ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Board to Meet Via Conference Call March 20
Board to Consider Approval of 2018 Recreational Black Sea Bass Regional Proposals
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Horseshoe Crab Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted May 8-10, 2018, at the Commission’s office at 1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200A-N, Arlington, VA 22201. The assessment will evaluate horseshoe crab population along the Atlantic coast and inform the management of this species. All Commission assessment workshops are open for public attendance. Time may be allotted for public comment at the Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) Chair’s discretion, but may also be limited to keep the workshop on schedule. Due to the use of confidential data in this assessment, some portions of…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has begun work on two Atlantic menhaden- specific benchmark assessments: a single-species benchmark assessment and an ecological-based benchmark assessment. The assessments will be used to evaluate the health of the stock and inform the management of the species in an ecological context. The assessments will be peer-reviewed at the end of 2019. A Data Workshop for both assessments will be conducted the week of April 23rd; details on the location will be released once they become available. The Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee and Stock Assessment Subcommittee will meet April 23-25 to…
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Arlington, VA – Maryland has scheduled their hearing to gather public comment on Draft Addendum I to the Black Drum Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The details of this hearing are attached. Draft Addendum I responds to a proposal from the state of Maryland to reopen its commercial fishery for black drum in the Chesapeake Bay (Bay). In the late 1990s, Maryland closed the commercial black drum fishery in its Bay waters to conduct a tagging and migration study. The fishery was not reopened after the study. In 2013, the Black Drum FMP extended this closure by requiring states to maintain…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has initiated a benchmark stock assessment for American lobster (Homarus americanus) to be completed in the summer of 2020. The goals of the assessment are to evaluate the health of stocks along the U.S. Atlantic coast and inform management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of data sources that will contribute to the goals of the assessment. This includes,…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has initiated a benchmark stock assessment for American shad (Alosa sapidissima) to be completed in the summer of 2019. The goals of the assessment are to evaluate the health of stocks along the Atlantic coast and inform management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of data sources that will contribute to the goals of the assessment. This includes, but…
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Board Seeks Input on Regional Management Options for Black Sea Recreational Fisheries for 2018 and Beyond
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