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.
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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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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FMP approved for 2023. 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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Addendum VIII implements the 2021 Revision to the ARM Framework and will be used to annually produce bait harvest recommendations for male and female horseshoe crabs of Delaware Bay-origin, based on the abundance of horseshoe crabs and red knots.
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The Addendum adjusts state commercial allocations to better align with availability and changes the incidental catch and small-scale fisheries (IC/SSF) provision to reduce landings from recent levels.
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The objective of this Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) is to allow a reopening of the recreational river herring fishery in the Nemasket River, located within the towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, Massachusetts. This 2022 SFMP is an update of the original SFMP prepared cooperatively by Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) and the Middleborough-Lakeville Herring Fishery Commission (Herring Commission) and approved by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) in 2016.
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The objective of this sustainable fishery management plan (SFMP) is to allow a reopening of the recreational river herring fishery in the Herring River. River herring in the Herring River consist of two species, alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis). Alewife are most numerous, arriving typically in late-March on spawning runs that can last into early June. Blueback herring arrive later with a shorter duration run that peaks in late May.
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The Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC or Council) initiated this Amendment because the allocation percentages do not reflect the current understanding of the recent and historic proportions of catch and landings from the two sectors.
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The goal of the Commission’s Addenda and the Council’s Framework is to establish a process for setting recreational bag, size, and season limits for summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, and bluefish such that measures aim to prevent overfishing, are reflective of stock status, appropriately account for uncertainty in the recreational data, take into consideration angler preferences, and provide an appropriate level of stability and predictability in changes from year to year.
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