The goal of the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Coastal Sharks is to promote stock rebuilding and management of the coastal shark fishery in a manner that is biologically, economically, socially, and ecologically sound.
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 purpose of this addendum is to implement a bycatch monitoring and research program as required by Amendment 6 (Section 2.1). The monitoring program is designed to increase the accuracy of data on striped bass discards from both the commercial and recreational fisheries. This addendum also recommends an angler education program to help decrease discard mortality in the recreational fishery (Section 2.2).
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Agreeing that the “recreational only” language contained in Addendum IV had the potential to disproportionably reduce recreational fisheries in some states, the Board initiated Draft Addendum V to the Fishery Management Plan for Tautog.
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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 summer flounder is U.S. waters in the western Atlantic Ocean from the southern border of North Carolina northward to the U.S.-Canadian border. 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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This addendum establishes a rebuilding time frame for Southern New England (SNE) lobster stock. It sets management measures for Lobster Conservation Management Areas 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 that should aid in the rebuilding of the SNE lobster stock. The addendum also creates a species-specific mechanism of ensuring that a state meets its obligations under the plan in a way that minimizes the probability that a state’s delay in complying does not adversely affect other states’ fisheries or conservation of the resource.
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In February 2007, the Board reviewed the revised Draft Addendum II and approved the management measures as stipulated within this document for implementation as Addendum II to Amendment 4.
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This document establishes a much-needed consistent coastwide monitoring and reporting criteria for the lobster fishery. Insufficient data is the primary limitation on managers’ ability to manage the fishery.
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