This memo describes the 2025 harvest recommendation for Delaware Bay Region horseshoe crabs using the methods from the Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Framework (ASMFC 2022a).
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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The Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) and Stock Assessment Subcommittee met jointly to discuss the 2024 stock assessment update and associated Board tasks regarding measures to achieve stock rebuilding, no targeting closures, recreational release mortality, and evaluating additional methods to support future size-bag-season analyses.
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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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This memorandum serves as a summary of the joint Spot and Atlantic Croaker Technical Committees (TCs) call on June 27, 2024. The following outlines the TCs’ discussions and recommendations for the Board regarding the Traffic Light Analysis (TLA) for both species.
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With the publication of the ARM Revision and the discourse around the change in female harvest recommendations, Earthjustice solicited an external peer review of the technical work. The following represents the ARM Subcommittee’s response to six major criticisms outlined by Dr. Shoemaker in his 2023 peer review. Each criticism is followed by a few bulleted summary points of the response and then a more detailed technical response to the criticism.
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Cobia Draft Addendum II Discussion Points
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