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The PDT has developed draft management options to be considered for public comment, which include options that would modify the minimum and maximum gauge sizes of Lobster Conservation and Management Areas (LCMAs) within the stock.
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The Draft Addenda were initiated in August 2020 to consider implementing electronic tracking requirements for federally permitted vessels in the American lobster and Jonah crab fisheries, with the objective of collecting high resolution spatial and temporal effort data.
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The American Lobster Management Board met to consider Draft Addendum XXIX to the American Lobster FMP and Draft Addendum IV to the Jonah crab FMP on electronic tracking requirements in the federal American lobster and Jonah crab fisheries for public comment. With full support across the states, the Board approved the Draft Addendum for public…
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened via webinar; Monday, October 18, 2021, and was called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Chair Daniel McKiernan.
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The TC made recommendations on proposed options for Draft Addendum XXVII related to the trigger mechanism for implementing a change to management measures, the trigger levels, and the management measures that should be considered. The subsequent sections of the memo provide additional information on the analyses performed and rationale for each set of recommendations.
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Alternate minimum and maximum sizes as management options for Lobster Management Areas in the Gulf of Maine
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened via webinar; Monday, August 2, 2021, and was called to order at 1:30 p.m. by Chair Daniel McKiernan.
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NOAA Fisheries will provide an update on efforts to collect information for the ALWTRT to develop recommendations to modify the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan to reduce risk to North Atlantic right whales in coastwide gillnet and Atlantic mixed species trap/pot fisheries, and Mid-Atlantic lobster fisheries.
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