Atlantic croaker are managed under Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Croaker (2005) and Addenda I, II, and III (2011, 2014, 2020)
Fishery Management Plans
Comprehensive plans detailing the strategies and regulations for managing specific fishery resources, aimed at ensuring their sustainability and productivity.
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The Goal of the Commission’s Addendum and the Council’s Framework is to modify two exemptions to the summer flounder commercial minimum mesh requirements, the Small Mesh Exemption Program (SMEP) and the flynet exemption.
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The purpose of this River Herring Sustainable Fishery Management Plan is to ensure river herring populations in New Hampshire remain stable and fishing opportunities continue to exist.
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The purpose of the Maine Sustainable Fisheries Management Plan (SFMP) is to establish river herring management goals, objectives, and develop management actions that continue to support and expand existing river herring resources that provide forage for Maine’s fish and wildlife and offer commercial fishing opportunities in Maine’s coastal communities.
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This Addendum postpones the gauge and escape vent size changes in sections 3.1 and 3.2 of Addendum XXVII for an additional six months to July 1, 2025. The Addendum does not postpone regulations prohibiting the issuance of 10% additional trap tags in Areas 1 and 3 above the trap limit or allocation.
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Addendum XXVII implements management measures—specifically gauge and vent sizes—that are expected to add an additional biological buffer through the protection of spawning stock biomass (SSB). The addendum also standardizes some management measures within and across LCMAs in the GOM/GBK stock.
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This Addendum postpones the gauge and escape vent size changes in sections 3.1 and 3.2 of Addendum XXVII for an additional six months to July 1, 2025. The Addendum does not postpone regulations prohibiting the issuance of 10% additional trap tags in Areas 1 and 3 above the trap limit or allocation.
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Amendment 3 requires states and jurisdictions to develop sustainable fishery management plans (SFMPs), which are reviewed by the Technical Committee and approved by the Board, in order to maintain commercial and recreational fisheries beyond January 2013.
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The final approved addendum modifies the recreational allocation framework, allows the Board to update allocations quickly if the underlying data are revised, expands the range of data used in harvest evaluations (up to five years of harvest data under the same management measures), and allows the Board to set management measures for a longer period of time (up to five years). For the allocation framework, Addendum II implements a new regional allocation framework based on data from 2014-2023. Data from 2016 and 2017 are excluded due to fishery closures during those years, and data from 2020 are excluded due to…
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