The Commission’s Tautog Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call on Friday, July 21st, to review the results of the NY feasibility study on alternative commercial tag types and placements.
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 Weakfish Technical Committee and Stock Assessment Subcommittee met via webinar to begin planning the next assessment update for weakfish, which is scheduled to be completed in early 2025. In addition to informing the management of weakfish, the results of this update will also support the Ecological Reference Point Benchmark Assessment for Atlantic menhaden.
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) and Draft Addendum II Plan Development Team (PDT) met via webinar on June 28, 2023 to continue discussions on estimating the impact of the 2023 Emergency Action and development of 2024 management options for Draft Addendum II. The June 28 meeting is a follow-up to the June5 TC-PDT meeting.
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) and Draft Addendum II Plan Development Team (PDT) met via webinar on June 5, 2023 to discuss tasks supporting the 2023 Emergency Action and development of Draft Addendum II, which considers 2024 management options.
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The TC met via conference call on May 31, 2023 to receive an update from USGS about the Alosine Genetic Stock Identification and Tissue Repository to identify current collection efforts and provide guidelines for future sample collections. Additionally, the TC met to review an update to the Potomac River Fisheries Commission (PRFC) Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) for American shad and to review planned management actions in South Carolina for the Edisto River in response to recent low fishery-dependent sustainability metrics.
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The Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Monitoring Committee (MC) and Technical Committee (TC) met via webinar on Thursday, May 11, 2022, to review and reassess the configuration of the Recreational Demand Model (RDM) and to discuss the potential for a timeline adjustment to the recreational management measures setting process for the three species.
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The primary purpose of this Technical Committee meeting was the continued discussion of reported live market fish quality and mortality issues presumably associated with the commercial tagging requirements.
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Formation of the 2023 work group was prompted by the Board’s recent discussions about biomedical mortality and follows the recommendation to periodically review the BMPs for the continued successful management of the horseshoe crab resource. The work group includes technical committee and advisory panel members with expertise in horseshoe crab biology, ecology, and biomedical processing.
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