Board to Meet in December to Consider Changing Measures for 2025 to Increase Probability of Rebuilding the Stock
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The Commission’s Spiny Dogfish Management Board approved Draft Addendum VII to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Spiny Dogfish for public comment. The Draft Addendum considers potential measures to maintain consistency with the federal Fishery Management Plan in response to the proposed rule to implement Spiny Dogfish Framework Adjustment 6.
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Board to Meet in December to Consider Changing Measures for 2025 to Increase Probability of Rebuilding the Stock
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Board Revises 2024/2025 Fishing Year Commercial Quota to 10.25 Million Pounds
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Northern Stock Not Overfishing and Overfishing Not Occurring; Southern Stock Overfished and Experiencing Overfishing
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The Commission’s Horseshoe Crab Management Board approved harvest specifications for horseshoe crabs of Delaware Bay-origin. Taking into consideration the output of the Adaptative Resource Management (ARM) Framework, the Board set a harvest limit of 500,000 male horseshoe crabs and zero female Delaware Bay-origin horseshoe crabs for the 2025 season.
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The Addendum postpones the implementation of certain measures from Addendum XXVII to July 1, 2025 to allow Canada more time to consider implementing complementary management measures, as well as reduce potential impacts to the US and Canadian lobster industries.
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The 2024 Red Drum Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report indicates the northern stock of red drum (New Jersey through North Carolina) is not overfished and not experiencing overfishing, while the southern stock (South Carolina through the east coast of Florida) is overfished and experiencing overfishing.
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Ecological Reference Point (ERP) Work Group and Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) will be meeting November 4 – 8, 2024 at the Westin Crystal City, 1800 Richmond Highway, Arlington, VA, to continue work on the development of the single-species and ERP stock assessments. The SAS will meet November 4-5 to discuss natural mortality estimates and updates to the single-species model, while the ERP Work Group will meet November 5-8 to explore various modeling approaches to evaluate the health of the stock and inform the management of the species in an…
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