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 ASMFC Tautog Technical Committee met to consider state reduction proposals to achieve a fishing mortality rate of 0.20 as required in Addendum IV, consider state specific assessments, and elect a Vice-Chair.
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The Technical Committee (TC) met for two days with the following objectives: review state implementation plans for Addendum II; develop Board advice on Draft Addendum III; review Florida’s methodology to partition weakfish catch into weakfish, sand seatrout, and hybrids; develop a set of stock measures to track management progress; discuss state trends, assessment methodologies, and sampling requirements; and begin planning for the next weakfish stock assessment. The Committee’s last meeting was June 22-23, 2006.
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Objective: To review two proposals from Maryland Department of Natural Resources. For a proposal on 2007 spring season regulations, the TC was charged by the Management Board to generate a consensus opinion as to whether the regulations were capable of restricting the harvest of migrant fish to below the Board-approved target of 30,000 fish. For a proposal to change regulations in the Susquehanna Flats, the TC was requested to provide technical advice for the Management Board at its next meeting.
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The Tautog Technical Committee held a conference call this morning to discuss state reduction proposals required in Addendum IV to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Tautog. The Addendum requires states to submit proposals to achieve a fishing mortality rate F = 0.20 (28.6% reduction), by April 6, 2007.
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The main agenda items for the Technical Committee (TC) meeting were: 1) reviewing Maryland’s estimate of the 2006 spring trophy fishery harvest (p.2) and a proposal to eliminate the quota for the spring trophy fishery (p.3); 2) reviewing a proposal from North Carolina to increase the AS/RR TAC by 50,000 pounds (p.5); 3) receiving a progress update from the Tagging Subcommittee (p.7); 4) receiving a progress update from the Stock Assessment Subcommittee (p.11); 5) and approving the Terms of Reference and timeline for the 2007 benchmark stock assessment (p.13).
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The Atlantic Croaker Technical Committee met on August 29, 2006 in Raleigh, NC. The major items on the agenda for the TC to address were: 1) review data and analyses required for assessing the triggers in Amendment 1; 2) determine which material would be presented to the South Atlantic Board at the Annual meeting, scheduled for late October 2006; and 3) determine future work for improving the triggers.
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