Consider Approval of the Nemasket River, Massachusetts Sustainable Fishery Management Plan for River Herring (B. Chase) Final Action; Discuss the Timetable for the Five-Year Update of Shad and River Herring Sustainable Fishery Management Plans (A. Harp); Review Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Decision on Potential Management of Shad and River Herring (B. Goldsborough)
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 Marine Recreational Information Program Wave 4 Harvest Estimates for Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass (if available) (K. Rootes-Murdy); Consider Management Approaches for 2017 Summer Flounder and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries Possible Action; Update on Stock Assessment Progress for Black Sea Bass (K. Rootes-Murdy); Consider 2016 Fishery Management Plan Reviews and State Compliance (K. Rootes-Murdy) Action
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Review 2016 Stock Assessment Update (J. McNamee); Provide Plan Development Team Guidance on Draft Amendment 1 (A. Harp, A. Nowalsky); Update on Tautog Tagging Trial (A. Harp)
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Consider Draft Cobia FMP Public Information Document for Public Comment (L. Daniel) Action; Red Drum Working Group Report (J. Kipp); Progress Report on the Spot and Atlantic Croaker Benchmark Stock Assessments (J. Kipp); Consider 2016 Fishery Management Plan Reviews and State Compliance (A. Hirrlinger) Action for Black Drum, Spanish Mackerel, and Spotted Seatrout
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Performance Evaluation of Addendum IV Regulatory Measures (N. Lengyel); Review the 2016 Atlantic Striped Bass Stock Assessment Update (G. Nelson); Consider Approval of the Advisory Panel Request to Submit Comment to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council on its Draft Squid Capacity Amendment (J. Gilmore) Possible Action
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Updates from NOAA Fisheries Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Division (K. Brewster-Geisz); Review Proposed Rule for HMS Amendment 5b (Dusky Sharks) and 2016 Stock Assessment Results; Review ProposedReview Proposed Rule for Blacknose Possession Limits for Federally-permitted Vessels; Review Proposed Rule for the 2017 Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishing Season; Set 2017 Coastal Sharks Fishery Specifications (A. Harp) Final Action
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Review and Set Spiny Dogfish Fishery Specifications for 2017/2018 Season Final Action; Consider 2016 Spiny Dogfish Fishery Management Plan Review and State Compliance (M. Appelman) Action
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Stotesbury Grand Ballroom of the Bar Harbor Club, Harborside Hotel, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 24, 2016, and was called to order at 3:01 o’clock p.m. by Chairman James J. Gilmore.
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The Atlantic Menhaden Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Stotesbury Grand Ballroom of the Bar Harbor Club, Harborside Hotel, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 26, 2016, and was called to order at 2:35 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Robert Ballou.
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