In the absence of a commercial fishery, five trawlers and four trappers participated in a six-week pilot winter sampling program to collect northern shrimp samples in the Gulf of Maine during February – March 2025 under a research set-aside quota of 26.5 mt (or approximately 58,400 pounds). In total, the nine participants caught 70 individual northern shrimp weighing approximately 2.42 pounds, representing less than 1% of the research set-aside quota.
Technical Committee Reports and Summaries
Detailed analyses and recommendations from technical committees, including working groups, sub-committees, plan development teams, and plan review teams, on specific scientific and management issues related to fisheries.
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This memo describes the 2026 harvest recommendation for Delaware Bay Region horseshoe crabs using the methods from the Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Framework (ASMFC 2022a).
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The Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Subcommittee and the Delaware Bay Ecosystem Technical Committee (DBETC) met via webinar to review the most recent population estimates for horseshoe crabs and red knots, the harvest recommendations from the ARM for the 2026 fishing year and supporting horseshoe crab and red knot data sets. Below are the agenda items and summary of the committee’s discussion and decisions.
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The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current status of Atlantic croaker using the annual Traffic Light Analysis (TLA). Annually, the Technical Committee (TC) conducts a TLA to evaluate a Mid-Atlantic and a South Atlantic harvest metric, combining commercial and recreational landings in the region.
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The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current status of Atlantic croaker using the annual Traffic Light Analysis (TLA). Annually, the Technical Committee (TC) conducts a TLA to evaluate a Mid-Atlantic and a South Atlantic harvest metric, combining commercial and recreational landings in the region.
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