Review Preliminary ASMFC Stock Assessment Summary (M. Celestino); Discuss Next Steps for Striped Bass Management (M. Armstrong) Possible Action; Consider Providing Comment to NOAA Fisheries Regarding Proposed Measures to Lift the Ban on Recreational Fishing in the Federal Block Island Sound Transit Zone (M. Armstrong); Review Maryland’s Conservation Equivalency Effectiveness Report of 2018 Recreational Measures for the Chesapeake Bay Summer and Fall Fishery (M. Luisi); Review Changes to Virginia’s Striped Bass Monitoring Program (N. Lengyel) Action
Board Agendas and Proceedings
Official records of discussions, decisions, and actions taken during meetings of the Commission’s management boards.
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Progress Update on Shad Benchmark Stock Assessment (J. Kipp); Consider Approval of Massachusetts’ Shad Sustainable Fishery Management Plan (SFMP) Final Action; Review SFMP and Technical Committee Memo (K. Sprankle); Update on Technical Committee Review of Inconsistencies with Harvest and Monitoring Requirements of Amendments 2 and 3 (K. Sprankle)
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Draft Amendment 1 to the Cobia Fishery Management Plan; Progress Update (M. Schmidtke); Provide Additional Guidance to the Plan Development Team to Develop Management Options (P. Geer); Consider Approval of 2018 Fishery Management Plan Review and State Compliance Reports for Spot (M. Schmidtke) Action
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Report from the Lobster-Whale Working Group (M. Ware) Possible Action; Report from the Lobster Enforcement Vessel Working Group (R. Beal) Possible Action; Review Implementation of the Jonah Crab Fishery Management Plan for Delaware and New York (S. Train) Possible Action; Progress Update on the 2020 American Lobster Benchmark Stock Assessment (J. Kipp)
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Consider Approval of Scup Proposals for 2019 Recreational Measures (J. McNamee) Final Action; 2019 Black Sea Bass Recreational Measures (J. McNamee); Consider Approval of Status Quo Measures Possible Final Action; Consider Methodology for Adjusting 2019 Recreational Measures Possible Action; Consider Virginia and North Carolina Proposals for Wave 1 Recreational Fishery Final Action; Report from Black Sea Bass Commercial Working Group (C. Starks) Possible Action
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Consider Specifications for the 2019 Fishing Year (M. Ware) Final Action; Consider Approval of 2019 Fishery Management Plan Review and State Compliance Reports (J. Kuesel) Action; Discussion of Bell et al. 2018 Paper “Rebuilding in the Face of Climate Change” (D. Pierce)
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Consider Approval of Draft Addendum II for Public Comment (M. Ware) Action; Advisory Panel Report (J. Kaelin); Setting Quota Periods in Area 1A; Consider Postponed Motion from October 2018 Meeting (P. Keliher) Action; Set Sub-Annual Catch Limit Specifications for the 2019 Fishing Year (M. Ware) Final Action*; Update on Draft Addendum III and New England Fishery Management Council 2019 Priorities (M. Ware)
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Terrace Ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York; Monday, October 22, 2018, and was called to order at 8:30 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Stephen Train.
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