The Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Subcommittee (SC) met on September 11, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. The meeting’s goals were to define the value used for horseshoe crab abundance in the ARM Framework, discuss how to incorporate horseshoe crab population estimates from the Catch Multiple Survey Analysis (CMSA) model used in the 2019 benchmark stock assessment into the ARM Framework, discuss other potential revisions to the ARM Framework, compile a set of recommendations based on these discussions for consideration by the Delaware Bay Ecosystem Technical Committee (DBETC)
Committee Summaries and Reports to the Board
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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Presentation on Atlantic shortfin mako shark Amendment 11 and new regulations
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review progress and discuss next steps on the October 2017 Board task regarding improvements to Amendments 2 and 3.
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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.
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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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