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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In order to reflect the intention of the bycatch limit, to account for Jonah crab caught while targeting another species, the Board added options to Addendum II to establish a definition of bycatch in the fishery.
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review sustainable fishery management plans (SFMP) from Maine (river herring), New York (river herring) and the Delaware River Basin Cooperative (shad). In addition, Florida presented a habitat plan for shad.
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The Stock Assessment Subcommittee met to discuss initial work on the trend analyses, Z reference points, incidental catch estimates and discuss the inclusion of data sets that were considered in the benchmark stock assessment, but not included due to time series constraints.
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Percent Liberalization in Harvest (0.16 to 0.18) and Dataset Recommendation for Conservation Equivalency Proposals
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The Atlantic Menhaden Advisory Panel (AP) met via conference call on January 9, 2017 to review comments made on the Amendment 3 Public Information Document (PID).
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GOM/GBK stock information, which describes ocean currents and larval supply patterns; investigating stock connectivity; identifying changes in the size distribution of egg‐bearing females; plotting a stock recruit relationship; investigating the potential standardization of biological management measures; develop a traffic light analysis; and identifying research holes and data gaps. The TC also investigated habitat availability for recruitment.
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In an effort to estimate potential impacts to the lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, the Technical Committee (TC) conducted two analyses, one which estimates impacts to the offshore fleet which fishes in and around the canyons, and another which estimates impacts to the Maine lobster fleet which fishes around Mount Desert Rock and Outer Schoodic Ridge.
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The following memo contains the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Technical Committee Review of the Draft Addendum XXVIII Options for the 2017 recreational fishery.
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