At the October 2025 meeting of the ASMFC Lobster Board (Board), the Board tasked the Technical Committee (TC) with an analysis “to estimate the benefits to the GOM/GBK fishery that would have resulted from implementing the minimum gauge size increases under Addendum XXVII that were ultimately repealed.”
Committee Summaries and Reports to the Board
Detailed analyses and recommendations from technical committees, including working groups, sub-committees, plan development teams, and plan review teams, on specific scientific and management issues related to fisheries.
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The 2023 Jonah Crab Benchmark Stock Assessment determined that the abundance of three of four Jonah crab stocks (Offshore Southern New England or OSNE, Inshore Gulf of Maine or IGOM, and Offshore Gulf of Maine or OGOM) has not been depleted to historical lows observed in the 1980s and 1990s. Data were insufficient to make determinations about abundance for the Inshore Southern New England stock (ISNE) or fishing mortality rates for any of the four stocks. The Peer Review of the assessment noted substantial uncertainty about stock status and expressed concern due to similarities between some trends in data for…
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