Coastal Sharks Technical Committee Meeting Summary — June 2017

At the May 2017 Coastal Sharks Management Board meeting, the final rule for federal Amendment 5b was presented by NOAA Fisheries Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Division. Amendment 5b implements a range of management measures to prevent overfishing and rebuild overfished dusky sharks. These measures are based on the 2016 dusky shark stock assessment update that…