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The South Atlantic Species Advisory Panel (AP) met for its first meeting since being formed in 2007. The AP was developed to provide management advice to the Commission’s South Atlantic State/Federal Fisheries Management Board (Board). The Board currently administers interstate management for five species: Atlantic croaker, red drum, spot, spotted seatrout, and Spanish mackerel. This…
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The Technical Committee (TC) met with the main objective of reviewing the 2007 trigger exercises and determining what would be presented to the Board. Other agenda items included electing a chair and vice chair and considering the timeline for the next assessment. The TC last met on August 29, 2006.
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The Atlantic Croaker Technical Committee met on August 29, 2006 in Raleigh, NC. The major items on the agenda for the TC to address were: 1) review data and analyses required for assessing the triggers in Amendment 1; 2) determine which material would be presented to the South Atlantic Board at the Annual meeting, scheduled…
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The purpose of managing Atlantic croaker stocks is to ensure that the Atlantic croaker resource can be utilized throughout its range by current and future generations of the fishing and non-fishing public.
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Galloway, NJ– The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Croaker. The Amendment revises the plan’s management goals and objectives, and establishes biological reference points (i.e., biomass and fishing mortality targets and thresholds) to manage the croaker resource (see table below). The Amendment also revises…
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Includes the 2003 Atlantic Croaker Stock Assessment Report, 2003 Terms of Reference & Advisory Report, 2004 Atlantic Croaker Stock Assessment Report, 2004 Terms of Reference & Advisory Panel Report
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The Atlantic Croaker Advisory Panel (AP) met on October 18, 2005 in Baltimore, MD. Gene Doebley, vice-chair of the AP ran the meeting in the absence of the Chair, Bill Windley. Nancy Wallace gave a presentation on Draft Amendment 1 to the Atlantic Croaker FMP for public comment. The AP members asked questions and then…
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