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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Progress Update on 2019 Atlantic Herring Area 1A Fishery Performance (R. Zobel); Update on Development of New England Fishery Management Council’s (NEFMC) Georges Bank Spawning Protection Discussion Document (D. Boelke) Possible Action; Review and Set 2020-2021 Atlantic Herring Fishery Specifications (K. Rootes-Murdy) Final Action; Update on Maine Enforcement Efforts on Quota Violation (R. Beal)
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The ASMFC 2019 78th Annual Meeting will be held Oct. 28–31, 2019, in New Castle, NH.
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call and webinar to address two items: 1) Review and provide a recommendation on Maine’s proposal to modify their river herring Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP); and 2) Concerning the October 2017 Board task regarding improvements to Amendments 2 and 3, review the TC task group’s recommendations for resolving identified harvest and monitoring inconsistencies with the Fishery Management Plan (FMP), and discuss next steps for completing the task.
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The Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Subcommittee (SC) met on September 11, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. The meeting’s goals were to define the value used for horseshoe crab abundance in the ARM Framework, discuss how to incorporate horseshoe crab population estimates from the Catch Multiple Survey Analysis (CMSA) model used in the 2019 benchmark stock assessment into the ARM Framework, discuss other potential revisions to the ARM Framework, compile a set of recommendations based on these discussions for consideration by the Delaware Bay Ecosystem Technical Committee (DBETC)
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