Fisheries Management
The Interstate Fisheries Management Program (ISFMP) serves as the core of decision-making, where species management boards establish regulations to conserve fishery resources, supported by an active participation framework. The ISFMP Policy Board oversees this, monitoring stock performance and policy implementation with representation from all member states and several federal agencies.
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This addendum further incorporates the FES data into management by considering it in the allocation strategy. The Addendum revises quota allocation to 96% recreational and 4% commercial. This addendum establishes a more flexible, alternative method for calculating the commercial trigger. This addendum increased the de minimis set aside to 4% to allow greater utilization of the commercial quota.
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79th Annual Meeting Webinar October 19-22, 2020
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The Shad and River Herring Advisory Panel (AP) met via conference call and webinar on Monday, October 26th, 2020 to review the results of the 2020 American Shad Benchmark Assessment and the preliminary Technical Committee (TC) recommendations for improving shad stocks.
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