Advisory Panel Agendas and Summaries
Summaries of input and recommendations from advisory panels consisting of stakeholders, including fishermen, industry representatives, and conservationists.
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The Atlantic Menhaden Advisory Panel (AP) convened for the first time on January 9, 2002, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Advisors were joined by the Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee for the morning session to review the progress on the multispecies assessment project and to hear the technical committee’s responses to the charges from the management board.
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The Advisory Panel was asked to provide comment to the Lobster Management Board on draft Addendum III.
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The conference call was initiated by a brief review of the purpose of the transferability workshop, which was identified as a forum to educate, explore, and discuss options for transferring licenses or trap tag allocations.
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Topics include Draft Amendment 4 to the Lobster FMP, Draft Addendum III, Law Enforcement Concerns, and a Transferability Workshop.
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The Herring Advisory Panel and Mid-Atlantic Council’s Mackerel Advisory Panel met jointly for the following purposes: • to discuss issues and options, and to develop recommendations to the Herring Committee for a limited entry/controlled access program for the herring fishery and the relationship between such a program and the mackerel fishery, and • to develop recommendations to the Herring Committee on Framework 1 to the Herring Fishery Management Plan.
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The Advisory Panel was requested to review the Public Information Document supporting Amendment 4 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American lobster. The Advisory Panel was asked to provide comments on trap tag issues that they perceive as being problematic to the success of the trap tag program. David Spencer provided an update on the arrival of factory trawlers, which are currently targeting red crab, to the northeast.
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