The Commission’s Tautog Technical Committee met via conference call on Tuesday July 9 to discuss the following items: 1) The Commercial Tagging Program 2) Type and timing of next Stock Assessment
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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Addendum XXXI, and the complementary framework action developed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council), modify both bodies’ Fishery Management Plans (FMPs) to allow the use of conservation equivalency for black sea bass recreational management. Both documents also include recommendations to NOAA Fisheries to implement transit provisions in the Exclusive Economic Zone in Block Island Sound.
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Addendum XXXII establishes a new process for establishing management measures for state recreational summer flounder and black sea bass fisheries for the 2019 fishing year and beyond.
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The Section initiated Addendum I to consider providing states the authority to allocate their state-specific quota between gear types. Amendment 3 specifies that, in jurisdictions with historical trawl and trap fisheries, a state’s quota must be divided such that 87% is allocated to the trawl fishery and 13% is allocated to the trap fishery. This addendum changes this regulation by transferring the authority to states to annually determine the split of northern shrimp quota between gear types, rather than having the split be specified in the management plan.
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review the Massachusetts Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) update for shad in the Merrimack River, discuss progress and next steps on the October 2017 Board task regarding improvements to Amendments 2 and 3, and receive an update on the ongoing American shad benchmark stock assessment.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Terrace Ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York; Monday, October 22, 2018, and was called to order at 8:30 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Stephen Train.
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