Explore recent news, management updates, and scientific reports to gain a deeper understanding of ongoing conservation efforts and sustainability strategies.
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A summary of all the board meetings, press releases and motions from the 2025 Annual Meeting.
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Combined materials for all Boards convening at the ASMFC Winter Meeting
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PDT Memo: Progress Report on Draft Addendum II to Amendment 3; TC Meeting Summary; Public Comment
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Winter Meeting will be February 3-5, 2026 at The Westin Crystal City.
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Combined materials for all Boards convening at the ASMFC Spring Meeting
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Progress Update on Development of Draft Addendum II for Public Comment (J. Boyle); Advisory Panel Report on 2025 Single-Species and Ecological Reference Points Stock Assessments (M. Lapp); Progress Update on Technical Committee Tasking on Changing Environmental Conditions (C. Craig)
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Evaluation of potential employment and economic impacts resulting from a total allowable catch reduction
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Winter Meeting will be February 4 – 5, 2025 at The Westin Crystal City.
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The objectives of the 2025 workshop were to: (1) Age samples collected and prepared from labs along the Atlantic coast for Atlantic menhaden, black sea bass, red drum, scup, striped bass, tautog, and winter flounder; (2) Identify areas of inconsistency that persist for processing or reading ageing structures; (3) Provide information on ageing error for…
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The goals of the Atlantic menhaden ageing structure exchange are to: (1) Establish methods to prepare and read otoliths and/or scales; (2) Determine the precision and bias of age reading data between different readers and labs or agencies along the coast; (3) Make recommendations to improve and standardize ageing practices; and (4) Move bait sample…
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs) explaining how the ASMFC coordinates Atlantic menhaden management and the science behind recent decisions.
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This document contains the 2025 Ecological Reference Point Peer Review and Benchmark Stock Assessment Report. Additional supporting information, including the working papers on natural mortality and other topics referenced herein, the presentations given at the Review Workshop, and background literature, can be found at the SEDAR 102 project page: https://sedarweb.org/assessments/sedar-102-asmfc-atlantic-menhaden/ Please note that this report…
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The purpose of this assessment was to update the 2020 Atlantic Menhaden Single-Species Benchmark Stock Assessment (SEDAR 2020a) and recent stock assessment update (ASMFC 2022) with data from 2022-2023. The stock assessment update reran the peer-reviewed BAM with a terminal year of 2023. As part of the assessment process, the Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Subcommittee…
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