Amendment Aims to Maintain High Abundance While Balancing Stakeholder Needs & Ecosystem Functions
Press Releases
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Arlington, VA – The 2006 peer-reviewed stock assessment report indicates the tautog resource continues to be at low biomass levels. Since the mid-1980s tautog has undergone a substantial decrease in biomass and remains at a low level of abundance. Total stock biomass has been stable since 1999. Since the plan does not define a specific biomass target, it cannot be determined if the population is overfished. With the 2003 fishing mortality rate of 0.30 exceeding the plan target of 0.29, the stock assessment concluded that overfishing is occurring. The Peer Review Panel concluded that the coastwide assessment currently provides the…
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Total Abundance, Female Spawning Stock Biomass and Recruitment Remain High
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Section Tentatively Sets 2007 Fishing Season for Same Duration
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Stable Abundance for Georges Bank & Most of Gulf of Maine Low Stock Abundance & Recruitment for Southern New England, Decreased Abundance & Recruitment for Area 514 (MA Bay and Stellwagen Bank)
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Stock Assessment Slated for Peer Review in 2006
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Galloway, NJ– The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Croaker. The Amendment revises the plan’s management goals and objectives, and establishes biological reference points (i.e., biomass and fishing mortality targets and thresholds) to manage the croaker resource (see table below). The Amendment also revises the management of Atlantic croaker to a regional basis (a Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic component). Amendment 1 Biological References Points and 2002 Estimates FISHING MORTALITY RATE SPAWNING STOCK BIOMASS 2002 ESTIMATES 0.11 201 million pounds (91,000 mt) TARGET 0.29 63.8 million pounds (28,932 mt)…
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Galloway, NJ – The Commission’s American Lobster Management Board has approved establishment of a multi-jurisdictional effort control program for Lobster Conservation Management Area 2 (state and federal waters off of Massachusetts and Rhode Island), through adoption of Addendum VII to Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster. The Addendum requires Area 2 jurisdictions to cap effort (traps fished) at or near recent levels and maintains a minimum size limit of 3 3/8”. Initial trap allocations will be determined in 2006 for implementation in 2007. This action responds to advice of the Technical Committee regarding stock decline,…
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