The Atlantic Croaker Technical Committee met on August 29, 2006 in Raleigh, NC. The major items on the agenda for the TC to address were: 1) review data and analyses required for assessing the triggers in Amendment 1; 2) determine which material would be presented to the South Atlantic Board at the Annual meeting, scheduled for late October 2006; and 3) determine future work for improving the triggers.
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 Red Drum Technical Committee last met in 2002. The main items on the agenda for this meeting were: 1) planning for the 2009 stock assessment; 2) discussion of a potential 2007 red drum summit; 3) review of South Carolina and Georgia red drum programs; and 4) discussion of the pending red drum longline survey.
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The first meeting of the Coastal Sharks Technical Committee (TC) began with a presentation of the 2006 Large Coastal Shark stock assessment by Julie Neer. Of the 22 LCS species managed by NMFS, 11 are prohibited and sandbar and blacktip sharks are assessed separately leaving a total of nine species comprising the LCS assessment.
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The Technical Committee (TC) met on April 19th and 20th to review recent research and monitoring and discuss the biological effects of draft Addendum IV options. Several researchers from the Virginia Tech Horseshoe Crab Research Center presented updates on their work.
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The Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee met on March 16-17, 2006 in Providence Rhode Island. This meeting was a data workshop in preparation of the 2006 stock assessment. This stock assessment is an update from the 2003 peer reviewed assessment and will not be peer reviewed. It will use similar datasets and methodology as the 2003 assessment, updating the data from 2002 through 2005.
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