Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Herring Section is seeking comments on the Public Information Document (PID) for Draft Amendment 3 to the Interstate Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The New England states of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on the PID; the dates, times, and locations of those hearings are attached. The PID presents four issues the Commission is seeking public input on to inform the development of management measures for the Atlantic herring fishery. The issues focus on (1) spawning area boundaries and closures in…
Meetings Announcements
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Lobster Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted September 23-25, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Clark Conference Room (Aquarium), 166 Water Street Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Assessment Workshop, originally scheduled for May 6-8, 2014 was moved to September to allow additional time to finalize the datasets for input into the assessment model. The assessment will evaluate the health of American lobster and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted June 2-5, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center, General Auditorium, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North Carolina. The assessment will evaluate the health of Atlantic menhaden and inform the 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 alternative analyses and models for consideration in the Atlantic…
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Board will meet via conference call on Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. to consider approval of regional proposals for the 2014 summer flounder recreational fishery and state proposals for the 2014 black sea bass recreational fishery in accordance with Addendum XXV to the Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan. Addendum XXV, approved by the Board in February 2014, establishes regional management measures for the 2014 summer flounder recreational fishery with the intent of providing more equity in recreational harvest opportunities along…
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Addendum Seeks Input on Management Options for 2014 Summer Flounder and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Data Workshop will be conducted on January 13-16, 2014 at the Florida Marine Research Institute (Conference Rooms 3A & 3B), 100 8th Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Florida. The workshop will review all available data sources for Atlantic menhaden and identify data sets that will be incorporated in the stock assessment. The workshop will be open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The deadline for the submission of data sources for consideration in…
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Arlington, VA – The state of North Carolina has scheduled its public hearing to gather public comment on Draft Addendum I to the Omnibus Amendment to the Interstate Fishery Management Plans for Spanish Mackerel, Spot, and Spotted Seatrout. The date, time, and location of the hearing follows. North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries The Draft Addendum proposes a pilot program that would allow states to reduce the Spanish mackerel minimum size limit for the commercial pound net fishery to 11 ½ inches for one or more of the summer months of July through September for the 2013 and 2014 fishing…
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Arlington, VA – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of Rhode Island have scheduled a joint hearing to gather public comment on Draft Addendum XXI to Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for the American Lobster. They are the only states that will be conducting a hearing; the hearing details follow. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries & Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Draft Addendum XXI proposes changes to the transferability program for Lobster Conservation Management Areas (LCMAs) 2 and 3. These changes are designed to allow for flexibility in the movement of traps as the consolidation…
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Arlington, VA – The states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on Draft Addendum VI to Amendment 2 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for the Atlantic Herring. The dates, times, and locations of the scheduled meetings are attached. Draft Addendum VI proposes several changes to the Atlantic herring management program: (1) allow seasonal splitting of the annual catch limit sub-components (sub-ACLs) for Areas 1B, 2, and 3; (2) allow up to 10% carryover of a sub-ACL for all management areas; (3) establish triggers to initiate the closing of directed fisheries, and…
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