Rebuilding Projections with 2022 Preliminary Data and Ocean Commercial Quota Utilization Scenarios
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 TC met via conference call on April 3, 2023 to draft a set of questions for TC members to use to survey commercial dealers and harvesters in their respective states about the commercial tagging program. The TC will reconvene in May to discuss the results and develop recommendations to present to the Board at the Summer Meeting.
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The Biomedical Best Management Practices Work Group (BMP WG) met on April 4th via webinar to continue addressing the Board task to review and update the Biomedical BMPs. Staff began the meeting by reviewing the work group ground rules and process for allowing the public to make comments during the meeting. The WG reviewed suggested edits to the draft BMP document it has developed over the last several months.
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The Biomedical Best Management Practices Work Group (BMP WG) met on March 13th via webinar to continue addressing the Board task to review and update the Biomedical BMPs. The WG reviewed a draft document including the recommended modifications to the BMPs.
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The Bluefish Monitoring Committee (MC) and the Bluefish Technical Committee (TC) met via webinar on Friday, March 24, to develop potential methods for applying a buffer between sector specific annual catch limits (ACLs) and annual catch targets (ACTs) to account for management uncertainty. The MC and TC reviewed buffer examples in other fisheries, recent bluefish overages by sector, discussed methods for buffer calculation, and discussed information that would be helpful for inclusion in the staff memo for specifications.
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The TC/SAS recommended that the 2024 assessment for sturgeon be an update instead of a full benchmark. • The TC/SAS approved the assessment schedule (Table 1) with the assessment update completed and presented to the Board in August 2024.
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Proposed 2023 Regional Recreational Management Measures for Scup and Black Sea Bass
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The TC met via conference call on January 19, 2023 to review an update to the North Carolina Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) for American shad and to consider a proposal from New Hampshire to reopen its river herring fishery.
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In November 2022, the Horseshoe Crab Management Board formed a work group to review and update the best management practices (BMPs) for handling biomedical catch, which were originally developed in 2011. The work group (WG) includes technical committee and advisory panel members with expertise in horseshoe crab biology, ecology, and biomedical processing.
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