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The Board first initiated this Addendum to reduce exploitation on the SNE stock by 50 or 75% in order to initiate stock rebuilding. At the August 2011 Board meeting, the Board changed the document’s purpose to reduce exploitation by 10% with the following motion: Move to change the objective to reduce exploitation in the SNE…
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The American Lobster Board convened Lobster Conservation Management Teams (LCMT) in Areas 2-6 to recommend methods of exploitation reduction consistent with the options in Draft Addendum XVII.
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Draft Addendum XVII for Final Approval (T. Kerns) Final Action. Review of Draft Addendum XVIII. Overview of Technical Committee Discussion Regarding New Jersey Stock Assessment Proposal (T. Kerns).
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Wilson Ballroom of the Langham Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, Monday morning, November 7, 2011, and was called to order at 10:45 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Mark Gibson.
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A sub-group of the Law Enforcement Committee discussed proposed management options in Draft Addendum XVII to Amendment 3 to the American Lobster Fishery Management Plan for Public Comment.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1, 2011, and was called to order at 1:00 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Douglas Grout.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, March 21, 2011, and was called to order at 12:35 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Douglas Grout.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Carolina Ballroom of The Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, November 10, 2010, and was called to order at 4:25 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Mark Gibson.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, August 2, 2010, and was called to order at 2:30 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Mark Gibson.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Plaza Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Crossings, Warwick, Rhode Island, July 22, 2010, and was called to order at 10:00 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Mark Gibson.
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, May 3, 2010, and was called to order at 12:30 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Mark Gibson.
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The purpose of this addendum sets new reference points in each of the three lobster stocks. The addendum also changes procedures for adopting and implementing new reference points.
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Technical Committee Report on Recruitment Failure in Southern New England Lobster Stock — April 2010
The Southern New England stock (SNE) is critically depleted and well below the minimum threshold abundance (25th percentile) (Figure 1). Abundance indices are at or near time series lows (ASMFC 2009) and this condition has persisted (ASMFC 2006).
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