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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The meeting of the American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel Old Towne, Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday, January 29, 2007, and was called to order at 2:45 o’clock, p.m., by Chairman Brian Culhane.
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Addendum IV establishes spawning stock biomass target and threshold reference points allowing the ASMFC to determine whether or not the stock is overfished.1 This Addendum also establishes a new rebuilding fishing mortality rate of F = 0.20 to initiate rebuilding to the spawning stock biomass threshold and target levels.
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The main agenda items for the Technical Committee (TC) meeting were: 1) reviewing Maryland’s estimate of the 2006 spring trophy fishery harvest (p.2) and a proposal to eliminate the quota for the spring trophy fishery (p.3); 2) reviewing a proposal from North Carolina to increase the AS/RR TAC by 50,000 pounds (p.5); 3) receiving a progress update from the Tagging Subcommittee (p.7); 4) receiving a progress update from the Stock Assessment Subcommittee (p.11); 5) and approving the Terms of Reference and timeline for the 2007 benchmark stock assessment (p.13).
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