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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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