This Addendum modifies the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Coastal Sharks by establishing new species groups for coastal sharks and a new recreational size limit for hammerhead sharks consistent with Amendment 5a to the 2006 Consolidated Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan.
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 Board directed the Plan Development Team (PDT) to scale the size of the SNE fishery to the size of the resource in the SNE stock. The PDT drafted an addendum that addressed this issue with trap reductions and changes to the transferability programs. The Board split the addendum, with the trap reductions addressed through Addendum XVIII (approved 2012) and addressed some of the changes in the transferability program for Areas 2 and 3 in Addendum XXI (approved August 2013).The current transferability rules were originally established in addenda XII and XIV. Addendum XXI and this addendum modify some of the…
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Addendum I establishes a two-year pilot program that allows states to reduce the minimum size limit of Spanish mackerel for the commercial pound net fishery to 11.5 inches from 12 inches for July through September.
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Southern New England Reductions in Fishing Capacity for Lobster Conservation Management Area 2 and 3 Transferability Measures
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This Addendum addresses the habitat needs & concerns of Red Drum.
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Addendum VI is intended to compliment measures contained in the Council’s Framework Adjustment 2 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP).
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The FMP will address management measures for black drum. Black drum management authority lies with the coastal states and is coordinated through the Commission. Responsibility for compatible management action in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from 3-200 miles from shore lies with the Secretary of Commerce through the ACFCMA in the absence of a federal fishery management plan.
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This Addendum modifies the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Coastal Sharks (FMP) to establish state shares for smoothhound sharks (smooth dogfish) and modify the existing at-sea processing regulations for smoothhound sharks.
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