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.
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 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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Move to recommend to the Section that specific options for an overfishing definition should be included in the Public Information Document; Move to recommend to the Section that socio-economic issues be included in the Public Information Document.
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A joint meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Herring Advisors was held to discuss limited entry/controlled access, a possible shift in the Area 1A Total Allowable Catch (TAC), and access to the resource by the fixed gear fishery.
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A joint meeting of the NEFMC and ASMFC Herring Advisors was held to discuss the need for a limited entry or controlled access system for the herring fishery in the Gulf of Maine, and to discuss the need for a control date in the herring fishery. Council staff summarized the FMP and noted it was still being reviewed by NMFS. Staff also explained the annual adjustment cycle for herring.
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