Summer Meeting Webinar August 2-5, 2021
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 Bluefish Advisory Panel (AP) met on Wednesday, July 28th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the AP process, review recent fishery performance (2020), review the recent management track assessment, and review the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) and Monitoring Committee (MC) recommendations.
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The Plan Development Team (PDT) met to continue the development of Draft Addendum XXVII on biological resiliency in the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank (GOM/GBK) Stock.
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Over the last few years the American Lobster Management Board (Board) has continually expressed interest in implementing requirements to collect high resolution spatial and temporal effort data in the federal lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, and has supported efforts to investigate systems and technology for collecting these data. At its May 2021 meeting, the Board agreed to create a technical work group including representatives from NOAA Fisheries, state and federal law enforcement, and members of the Board to identify objectives, technological solutions, and system characteristics for vessel tracking devices in the federal lobster and Jonah crab fisheries. The work group,…
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A Tautog Advisory Panel (AP) meeting was scheduled for June 21 to provide information on the commercial harvest tagging program implemented last year. Only one AP member was in attendance on the call and declined to provide comments. Staff reached out to AP members by email and phone, and received feedback from industry members.
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The Commission’s Tautog Technical Committee (TC) met virtually on Wednesday July 7, 2021 to review information regarding the 2020 commercial harvest tagging program. An email from NY DEC describing numerous issues with the tag in general was distributed prior to the meeting.
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The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s (Council’s) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel (AP) met jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (Commission’s) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass AP on June 21, 2021 to review the Fishery Information Documents and develop the following Fishery Performance Report for the three species. The primary purpose of this report is to contextualize catch histories for the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) by providing information about fishing effort, market trends, environmental changes, and other factors.
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