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The Shad & River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Monticello Room of The Swissotel Washington, The Watergate, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 28, 2002, and was called to order at 10:00 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Jack Travelstead.
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Monticello Room of the Swissotel, The Watergate, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 19, 2002, and was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by Chairman Jack Travelstead.
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The Technical Committee (TC) reviewed the annual compliance reports of 2000 spawning stock surveys by participating states. After discussion, the TC unanimously recommended approval of the reports. As part of this review, the TC discussed the requirement for analysis of recreational harvest and effort.
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Ballroom of the Adam’s Mark Hotel, Clearwater Beach, Florida, October 18, 2000, and was called to order at 2:00 p.m. by Chairman Ron Micheals.
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In the fall of 1999, the Technical Committee reviewed both state annual reports and fishing recovery plans. In doing so, the Technical Committee compiled a report which identified a number of technical errors that require correction and/or clarification in Amendment 1. Upon review by the Shad and River Herring Management Board, the Board concurred with…
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Washington Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, February 9, 2000, and was called to order at 7:40 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Ron Michaels.
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the East/Center Room of the Mystic Hilton Hotel, Mystic, Connecticut, on Tuesday, November 2, 1999, and was called to order at 3:20 p.m. by Chairman Byron Young.
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Given the pronounced drop in coastwide shad landings and stock abundance from several Atlantic coast rivers after 1990, a revised stock assessment is clearly warranted to determine the root cause(s) of the recent shad declines along the Atlantic coast. In this report, the Shad Stock Assessment Subcommitee (SSAS) estimated an overfishing definition (F30), stock trends,…
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In October 1997, American shad and Atlantic sturgeon were prioritized for an external peer review to be conducted in early 1998.
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The study described herein was undertaken to investigate the trends in ocean harvest of shad and river herring for each Atlantic coastal state from 1978 to 1988, and present recommendations to enhance management options.
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In this study, we used the Shepherd stock-recruitment (S-R) model to estimate maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and the maximum sustainable fishing rates (Fmsy) of 12 Atlantic coast shad stocks with long-term commercial catch-effort, age composition and mortality data.
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