At the Winter Meeting, state‐specific harvest reduction analyses were presented to the Tautog Board. The Board voiced interest in an alternative harvest reduction analysis, whereby states within a region would have consistent management measures. The Technical Committee (TC) was subsequently tasked with evaluating consistent management options within the regions of Long Island Sound (LIS), New Jersey‐New York Bight (NJ‐NYB), Delaware‐Maryland‐Virginia (DelMarVa). The TC met via conference call to review the regional tasks assigned by the Tautog Board.
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 Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review sustainable fishery management plans (SFMP) from Maine (river herring), New York (river herring) and the Delaware River Basin Cooperative (shad). In addition, Florida presented a habitat plan for shad.
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The Stock Assessment Subcommittee met to discuss initial work on the trend analyses, Z reference points, incidental catch estimates and discuss the inclusion of data sets that were considered in the benchmark stock assessment, but not included due to time series constraints.
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Percent Liberalization in Harvest (0.16 to 0.18) and Dataset Recommendation for Conservation Equivalency Proposals
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GOM/GBK stock information, which describes ocean currents and larval supply patterns; investigating stock connectivity; identifying changes in the size distribution of egg‐bearing females; plotting a stock recruit relationship; investigating the potential standardization of biological management measures; develop a traffic light analysis; and identifying research holes and data gaps. The TC also investigated habitat availability for recruitment.
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In an effort to estimate potential impacts to the lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, the Technical Committee (TC) conducted two analyses, one which estimates impacts to the offshore fleet which fishes in and around the canyons, and another which estimates impacts to the Maine lobster fleet which fishes around Mount Desert Rock and Outer Schoodic Ridge.
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The following memo contains the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Technical Committee Review of the Draft Addendum XXVIII Options for the 2017 recreational fishery.
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The TC, PDT and SAS held a joint conference call to discuss the technical methods and the results of the harvest reduction and spawning stock biomass projection analysis; a Board task assigned at the October meeting. The following is an overview of the analyses results, as well as an overview of the follow‐up items to calculate the recreational reductions.
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The Stock Assessment Subcommittee met to review the data that has been submitted by states, discuss SCAA models for Massachusetts and North Carolina, review the prior calculations for Z reference points and divide the river herring trend analyses tasks.
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