A report of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission pursuant to U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award Nos. NA87 FG 0025 and NA97 FGO 0034.
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 goal of this plan is to conserve and protect the horseshoe crab resource to maintain sustainable levels of spawning stock biomass to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing for continued use over time.
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This addendum addresses the Albemarle/Roanoke Stock Recovery and Delaware River Stock Recovery. It also maintains the 1998 state regulations through 1999 and 2000.
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Addendum 2 adjusts the implementation schedule for management measures by the participating states.
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The goal of the management plan is to conserve the bluefish resource along the Atlantic coast.
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This document is a collation of nearly the entire time-series of data on Atlantic striped bass collected by state and federal agencies since systematic monitoring of the species began in the 1950s.
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The plan, when fully implemented, is designed to minimize the chance of a population collapse due to recruitment failure.
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On May 20, 1997, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Striped Bass Management Board initiated Addendum II to the interstate management plan for striped bass. This was done because Amendment 5 (the current version of the plan) and its associated Addendum I only specified fishing regulations through 1997, and policy had to be formulated for the next fishing year.
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