On the November 20, 2018 conference call of the Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC), the TC designated a smaller task group to develop the October 2017 Board task regarding improvements to Amendments 2 and 3. This task group (TG) met via conference call on January 7, 2019 to advance work on identifying and describing conflicts between the requirements of the Amendments and state management and monitoring programs.
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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States implementation plans and conservation equivalency (CE) proposals for Addendum VI were due November 30, 2019 for technical review. The Atlantic Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) met December 17-18, 2019 to review technical merit of state implementation plans and CE proposals, and to ensure the accepted criteria outlined in M19-084 were followed.
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The following memo contains the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Technical Committee Review of analysis on proposed 2019 Scup recreational measures.
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The Commission’s Tautog Technical Committee met via conference call on Tuesday July 9 to discuss the following items: 1) The Commercial Tagging Program 2) Type and timing of next Stock Assessment
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review the Massachusetts Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) update for shad in the Merrimack River, discuss progress and next steps on the October 2017 Board task regarding improvements to Amendments 2 and 3, and receive an update on the ongoing American shad benchmark stock assessment.
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A joint meeting between the Red Drum Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) and representatives from the Assessment Science Committee (ASC) was held to identify improvements that can be made from the previous red drum stock assessment to the next.
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Move to task the Technical Committee to review weakfish discard data from the Northeast Federal Observer Program and from vessel trip reports (VTRs), analyze landings data to see if the occurrences of commercial trips approaching the 100-lb trip limit have increased, and to characterize the fisheries with substantial weakfish discards to see if different trip limits could be implemented to turn discards into landings and/or if fishing modifications could be made to minimize discards.
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to discuss the October 2017 Board task to develop proposed improvements to Amendments 2 and 3.
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