The Atlantic Striped Bass Advisory Panel (AP) met via webinar on January 6, 2022 to provide feedback on the new options developed for Draft Amendment 7 following the October 2021 Striped Bass Management Board meeting: fishing mortality management triggers, measures to protect strong year classes (recreational size limits), and stock rebuilding considerations.
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 (AP) met virtually at 5:00 PM on January 12, 2022 to review Draft Addendum I to Amendment 3 and provide feedback on whether any strategies or options should be considered that are not included in the addendum currently
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Advisory Panel (AP) met via webinar on April 13, 2021 to discuss AP recommendations on which issues from the Amendment 7 Public Information Document (PID) to include in Draft Amendment 7. Staff presented an overview of each issue and a general summary of comments heard during the eleven public hearings conducted on the PID.
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The Bluefish Advisory Panel (AP) met on Wednesday, July 28th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the AP process, review recent fishery performance (2020), review the recent management track assessment, and review the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) and Monitoring Committee (MC) recommendations.
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A Tautog Advisory Panel (AP) meeting was scheduled for June 21 to provide information on the commercial harvest tagging program implemented last year. Only one AP member was in attendance on the call and declined to provide comments. Staff reached out to AP members by email and phone, and received feedback from industry members.
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The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s (Council’s) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel (AP) met jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (Commission’s) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass AP on June 21, 2021 to review the Fishery Information Documents and develop the following Fishery Performance Report for the three species. The primary purpose of this report is to contextualize catch histories for the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) by providing information about fishing effort, market trends, environmental changes, and other factors.
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