The purpose of this Addendum is to revise the definition of striped bass recruitment failure.
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 VI maintains a management program for the Delaware Bay Region (i.e., coastal and bay waters of New Jersey and Delaware, and coastal waters only of Maryland and Virginia) following the expiration of Addendum V after October 31, 2010.
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The purpose of this addendum sets new reference points in each of the three lobster stocks. The addendum also changes procedures for adopting and implementing new reference points.
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Amendment 3 addresses only management measures for American shad.
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The purpose of this addendum is to respond to the results of the most recent weakfish stock assessment. The addendum revises the biological reference points and implements new or revised regulations to reduce the level of fishery removals.
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The management units for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass remain unchanged in this Addendum. Specifically, the management unit for scup and black sea bass in US waters is the western Atlantic Ocean from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina northward to the US-Canadian border.
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At the request of Virginia, the Board initiated Addendum IV to accommodate the Commonwealth’s legislative process as well as ensure that the current management program is extended while menhaden research efforts continue. Virginia’s legislature, which meets January through March each year, is responsible for regulating the menhaden reduction fishery in state waters. With Addendum IV in place, Virginia state administrators can work with the legislature in early 2010 to amend Virginia law to extend the harvest cap without the current cap expiring.
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This addendum maintains the historic level of trap fishing effort and curtail a potential influx of new Federal lobster vessels in the LMCA 1 EEZ fishery. The addendum limits entry of vessels which have not fished with traps in Area 1 in the past from fishing in Area 1 with traps in the future.
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