The Northern Shrimp Technical Committee (NSTC) met via webinar and conference call to discuss the results of the 2015 winter test tows, to discuss progress with the 2015 stock status update and assessment model development, and how to set specifications under Amendment 3 without an approved stock assessment model for management use.
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 Atlantic Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) met on March 24, 2015. The agenda included a request from Virginia for the TC to review two proposals: 1) changes to the current Virginia striped bass tagging and monitoring program and, 2) studies to calculate calibration factors for the seine nets used by Maryland and Virginia for the striped bass juvenile abundance index in the Chesapeake Bay.
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) met on January 9, and March 24, 2015 to continue the development of fishing mortality (F) reference points for the Chesapeake Bay (CB) as well as consider potential F reference points for the other spawning stocks (Delaware Bay and Hudson River).
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Enclosed are tables that detail the current status of the recreational and commercial fishing regulations for Atlantic striped bass within each state/jurisdiction.
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At its February meeting, the Atlantic Menhaden Management Board (Board) tasked the BERP WG with developing ecological reference points for Atlantic menhaden using Pikitch et al. (2012) as described in the ERP Report.
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After consideration of the recommendations from the 2015 Atlantic Menhaden Benchmark Stock Assessment Peer Review Panel, the Technical Committee (TC) recommends that the biological reference points for the Atlantic menhaden population be based on MSP (maximum spawning potential).
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Clarification to Selecting a Regional Stock Definition for Tautog Management
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During the ASMFC Winter Meeting in February 2015, the Board tasked the Technical Committee (TC) with calculating a set of reference points for all the regional options using consistent methods. The Board tabled the decision to select a regional stock unit definition, so the TC will produce a whitepaper to revisit the regional breakdowns. The purpose of this meeting is to review the work that has been put into the whitepaper and additional data analysis (i.e. reference points and MRIP data).
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