This is a report of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission pursuant to U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award No. NA20NMF4740012.
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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In August 2020, the Board initiated development of Amendment 7 to the FMP to update the management program to better align with current fishery needs and priorities, and build upon the action of Addendum VI to Amendment 6 to address overfishing and initiate rebuilding. Amendment 7 addresses management triggers, recreational release mortality, stock rebuilding plan, and conservation equivalency (CE).
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The goal of the addendum is to collect high resolution spatial and temporal data to characterize effort in the federal American lobster and Jonah crab fisheries for management and enforcement needs. These data will improve stock assessment, inform discussions and management decisions related to protected species and marine spatial planning, and enhance offshore enforcement.
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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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The following proposes an updated five-year SFMP for river herring in waters of New York State with additional sustainability targets and thresholds. The goal of this plan is to ensure that river herring resources in New York provide a source of forage for New York’s fish and wildlife and provide opportunities for recreational and commercial fishing now and in the future.
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At the December 2017 joint meeting, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Bluefish Board (Board) and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) initiated Amendment 2 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Bluefish to revisit commercial and recreational sector allocations, state commercial allocations, and provide an opportunity for stakeholders to provide input on areas of bluefish management that needed updating. During the Amendment’s initial development, the 2019 operational assessment for bluefish indicated the stock was overfished, and developing a rebuilding plan became a top priority for inclusion in this Amendment.
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Addendum XXXIII and the complementary Amendment developed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) modify the allocations of the coastwide black sea bass commercial quota among the states, which were originally implemented in 2003 through Amendment 13 to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP), and extended indefinitely through Addendum XIX (2007).
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This addendum further incorporates the FES data into management by considering it in the allocation strategy. The Addendum revises quota allocation to 96% recreational and 4% commercial. This addendum establishes a more flexible, alternative method for calculating the commercial trigger. This addendum increased the de minimis set aside to 4% to allow greater utilization of the commercial quota.
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The purpose of Georgia’s alternative management plan for river herring is to allow waters to remain open. This plan is submitted to fulfill requirements of Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Shad and River Herring (River Herring Management).
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