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Webinar Meeting Scheduled for January 10, 2024
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ASMFC Approved Vessel Tracking Devices and Contact Information
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has initiated a benchmark stock assessment for American lobster (Homarus americanus) to be completed in the summer of 2025. The goals of the assessment are to evaluate the health of stocks along the US Atlantic coast and inform management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment…
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Consider 2023 Jonah Crab Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report; Presentation of Stock Assessment Report (J. Carloni); Presentation of Peer Review Panel Report (R. Wong); Consider Acceptance of Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report for Management Use; Consider Management Response, if necessary; Consider Annual Data Update of American Lobster Indices (K. Reardon); Update…
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Addendum XXVII was adopted in May 2023, and established a trigger mechanism to automatically implement management measures to provide additional protection of the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank (GOM/GBK) spawning stock biomass.
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2023 American Lobster Data Update and Addendum XXVII Trigger Index Update
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The American Lobster Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Jefferson Ballroom of the Westin Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, via hybrid meeting, in-person and webinar; Monday, May 1, 2023, and was called to order at 12:45 p.m. by Chair Jason McNamee.
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Addendum Establishes Measures to Increase Protection of Spawning Stock Biomass of the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank Stock
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