At the request of Virginia, the Board initiated Addendum IV to accommodate the Commonwealth’s legislative process as well as ensure that the current management program is extended while menhaden research efforts continue. Virginia’s legislature, which meets January through March each year, is responsible for regulating the menhaden reduction fishery in state waters. With Addendum IV in place, Virginia state administrators can work with the legislature in early 2010 to amend Virginia law to extend the harvest cap without the current cap expiring.
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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Specification Recommendations for May 2010 – April 2011 Spiny Dogfish Fishing Season
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This addendum maintains the historic level of trap fishing effort and curtail a potential influx of new Federal lobster vessels in the LMCA 1 EEZ fishery. The addendum limits entry of vessels which have not fished with traps in Area 1 in the past from fishing in Area 1 with traps in the future.
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The Atlantic Menhaden Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in Brenton Hall of the Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel, Newport, Rhode Island, November 3, 2009, and was called to order at 8:00 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Patten D. White.
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The Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Board of the Atlantic States Maine Fisheries Commission convened in Brenton Hall of the Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel, Newport, Rhode Island, November 2, 2009, and was called to order at 10:45 o’clock a.m. by Chairman A.C. Carpenter.
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