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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Addendum V modifies the Spiny Dogfish Fishery Management Plan to maintain consistency with the Shark Conservation Act of 2010.
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The Board approved Addendum IV in October 2014. The Addendum establishes new F reference points, as recommended by the 2013 benchmark stock assessment. In order to reduce F to a level at or below the new target, coastal states will implement a 25% harvest reduction from 2013 levels. Chesapeake Bay states/jurisdictions will implement a 20.5% harvest reduction from 2012 levels since their fisheries were reduced by 14% in 2013 based on their management program. All states/jurisdictions will promulgate regulations prior to the start of their 2015 fisheries.
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This Addendum modifies some of the rules contained in Addenda XII and XIV, as well as establishes additional guidelines. Further modifications to the single and aggregate ownership caps for Area 3 will be considered under Draft Addendum XXII.
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The Board initiated Addendum XXI to scale the Southern New England (SNE) fishery to the size of the resource. The management measures in the Addendum are designed to allow for flexibility in the movement of traps as the consolidation program for Lobster Conservation Management Areas (Areas) 2 and 3 to address latent effort (unfished allocation) are implemented.
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This Addendum establishes the use of the Traffic Light Approach (Caddy and Mahon, 1995; Caddy, 1998, 1999) with precautionary management framework in the management of spot. The management framework utilizing the Traffic Light Approach replaces the management triggers as stipulated in the Omnibus Amendment.
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This Addendum establishes the use of the Traffic Light Approach (Caddy and Mahon, 1995; Caddy, 1998, 1999) as a precautionary management framework in the management of Atlantic croaker.
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This Addendum was initiated by the Habitat Committee in 2012 in order to update the habitat section of the current American Lobster FMP, which was approved in 1997. It is intended to provide supporting information on American lobster habitat needs and concerns and does not impact current regulatory measures.
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