Draft Addendum Considers Maine’s Glass Eel Quota for 2025 and Beyond
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s American Lobster Management Board initiated Draft Addendum XXX to Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster. The Draft Addendum is being considered to clarify how the measures of Addendum XXVII, approved in May 2023, will apply to foreign imports of American lobster. The Magnuson-Stevens Act prohibits imports of whole live lobster smaller than the minimum possession size in effect at the time under the Commission’s American lobster management program. This provision, referred to as the Mitchell Provision, was passed to prevent imports of lobster smaller than what the US industry can…
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Establishes Measures to Continue Progress Towards Stock Rebuilding
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Webinar Meeting Scheduled for January 10, 2024
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Proposals Due January 8, 2024
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Portland, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) initiated an amendment to consider implementing a new stock monitoring tool, termed the wake-up index, for Gulf of Maine northern shrimp which would inform when an ongoing moratorium should be re-evaluated if there are signs of improved stock condition. While the amendment is under development, the Section maintained the current moratorium through the 2024 fishing year. The Section also passed a motion tasking the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee to evaluate the potential for an industry-based research program given the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) suspension of the…
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Portland, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) initiated an amendment to consider implementing a new stock monitoring tool, termed the wake-up index, for Gulf of Maine northern shrimp which would inform when an ongoing moratorium should be re-evaluated if there are signs of improved stock condition. While the amendment is under development, the Section maintained the current moratorium through the 2024 fishing year. The Section also passed a motion tasking the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee to evaluate the potential for an industry-based research program given the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) suspension of the…
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The Atlantic coastal states of Maine through Virginia have scheduled hearings to gather public input on Draft Addendum II to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass, which considers management measures designed to support stock rebuilding by reducing fishing mortality to the target in 2024.
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