The purpose of this addendum is to provide detail to the public on the Commission’s recommendation to NOAA fisheries regarding the smallest minimum size in effect and how it is interpreted under the Mitchell Provision as the minimum gauge size increases occur in LCMA 1 in 2025 and 2027.
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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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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In May 2023, the Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board (Board) initiated Addendum II to Amendment 7 to address stock rebuilding beyond 2023.
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Interim Commercial and Recreational Management Measures
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Addendum I allows for voluntary transfers of ocean commercial quota contingent on stock status. When the stock is not overfished, the Board will decide if voluntary transfers of ocean commercial quota between states that have ocean quota is allowed, and can set criteria for those transfers. When the stock is overfished, no quota transfers are allowed.
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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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At the November 2022 Atlantic Menhaden Board (Board) meeting, the Board approved Addendum I to Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden, which allocates a baseline quota of 0.01% to Pennsylvania; 0.25% to South Carolina, Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, and Florida; and 0.5% to Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and Virginia; and then allocates the rest of the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) based on landings from 2018, 2019, and 2021. However, Addendum I inadvertently did not include text to amend the time period used to…
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