Specification Recommendations for May 2010 – April 2011 Spiny Dogfish Fishing Season
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 Technical Committee (TC) met on October 1st primarily to review the draft benchmark stock assessment. The group also reviewed North Carolina’s quota transfer request. Under ‘Other Business’ the TC received information on Massachusetts’s proposed regulation changes and findings from recent research and monitoring.
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The Coastal Sharks Technical Committee (TC) convened via phone conference on July 15, 2009 to review a North Carolina Memo dated July 6, 2009, revisit Draft Addendum I to the Interstate Fisheries Management Plan (Addendum I) for Atlantic Coastal Sharks and evaluate a Maine de minimis proposal dated June 30, 2009.
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At the May Board meeting the Technical Committee (TC) was tasked to provide the Board guidance on responding to the results of the 2009 lobster stock assessment. The TC suggests the Board adopt the reference points recommended in the stock assessment document rather than those recommended by the peer reviewers because they are more risk averse and reflect conditions experienced by the fishery in the last 25 years.
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The Coastal Sharks Technical Committee (TC) convened via phone conference on June 5, 2009 to review Draft Addendum I to the Interstate Fisheries Management Plan (Addendum I) for Atlantic Coastal Sharks and a New Hampshire de minimis proposal.
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Mandatory Region Delineations for the Summer Flounder Recreational Fishery
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