Consider Work Group Report on Biomedical Best Management Practices (C. Starks) Action; Review Potential Processes and Resources Required for Evaluating Management Objectives for the Delaware Bay Bait Fishery (C. Starks)
Board Agendas and Proceedings
Official records of discussions, decisions, and actions taken during meetings of the Commission’s management boards.
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Review NOAA Fisheries’ Final Actions and Consider Comment on Proposed Actions for Coastal Sharks (K. Brewster-Geisz); Proposed Rule to Prohibit the Harvest of Oceanic Whitetip Sharks; Final Amendment 14 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP); Final Atlantic Shark Fishery Review (SHARE); Scoping for Amendment 16 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic HMS FMP; Scoping for Electronic Reporting; Proposed Rule for Amendment 15 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic HMS FMP; Consider Fishery Management Plan Review and State Compliance for 2021 Fishing Year (C. Starks)
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Update on Atlantic Striped Bass Cooperative Tagging Program (J. Newhard); Technical Committee Report (M. Celestino); Projections Using 2022 Preliminary Data and Quota Utilization Scenarios; Consider Management Response to the Technical Committee Projections; Consider Approval of Addendum I on Ocean Commercial Quota Transfers; Review Options and Public Comment Summary (E. Franke); Review Advisory Panel Report (E. Franke); Consider Final Approval of Addendum I
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Consider 2023 Black Drum Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report; Presentation of Stock Assessment (C. McDonough); Presentation of Peer Review Panel Report (M. Reichert); Consider Acceptance of Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report for Management Use; Consider Adopting Annual Indicators; Consider Not Conducting 2023 Atlantic Croaker and Spot Traffic Light Analyses (T. Bauer)
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Review Report on the Atlantic Menhaden Fishery in Virginia (P. Geer); Progress Update on Menhaden Single-species and Ecological Reference Point (ERP) Stock Assessments; Review and Consider Approval of ERP Terms of Reference (K. Drew)
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Consider Addendum XXVII on Increasing Protection of Spawning Stock Biomass of the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank Stock for Final Approval (C. Starks); Review Options and Public Comment Summary (C. Starks); Advisory Panel Report (G. Moore); Consider Approval of Addendum XXVII; Update from Work Group on Implementation of Addendum XXIX: Tracker Devices in the Federal Lobster and Jonah Crab Fishery (T. Kerns); Progress Update on 2023 Jonah Crab Benchmark Stock Assessment (J. Kipp); Review Lobster Conservation Management Team Roles and Process (C. Starks)
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The Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, convened via webinar; Thursday, March 2, 2023, and was called to order at 10:30 a.m. by Chair Justin Davis.
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At its webinar meeting on March 2, the Board reviewed and approved the presented range of state/regional options for 2023 scup and black sea bass measures as developed by the RDM. Following this meeting, the states will need to select and inform the Commission of their final 2023 state waters measures for both scup and black sea bass, which will be included in a letter to NOAA Fisheries. 2023 summer flounder recreational measures will be the same as the 2022 measures.
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