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Alexandria, VA – The Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Management Board approved a total allowable catch (TAC) for the 2015 and 2016 fishing seasons at 187,880 mt per year, a 10% increase from the 2014 TAC. The increase responds to the positive findings of the 2015 Atlantic menhaden benchmark assessment which indicates the resource is not overfished…
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The Menhaden Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Edison Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, May 5, 2015, and was called to order at 8:00 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Robert H. Boyles, Jr.
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The Advisory Panel met via conference call on April 10, 2015 to review the results of the 2015 benchmark stock assessment and peer review as well as formulate recommendations for the fishery specifications setting process.
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At its February meeting, the Atlantic Menhaden Management Board (Board) tasked the BERP WG with developing ecological reference points for Atlantic menhaden using Pikitch et al. (2012) as described in the ERP Report.
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After consideration of the recommendations from the 2015 Atlantic Menhaden Benchmark Stock Assessment Peer Review Panel, the Technical Committee (TC) recommends that the biological reference points for the Atlantic menhaden population be based on MSP (maximum spawning potential).
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2015 Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment and Peer Review Reports Action; Discuss Next Steps for Management in Response to the Benchmark Assessment and Ecological Reference Points Term of Reference (R. Boyles, Jr.)
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Alexandria, VA – The 2015 Atlantic menhaden benchmark assessment indicates the resource is not overfished nor experiencing overfishing relative to the current maximum spawning potential (MSP) based biological reference points. Population fecundity, a measure of reproductive capacity, is estimated to be 71% higher than the target value (100 trillion eggs). Additionally, total fishing mortality is…
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The Atlantic Menhaden Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Edison Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, February 3, 2015, and was called to order at 3:00 o’clock p.m. by Chairman Robert H. Boyles, Jr.
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s second Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted August 12 – 15, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center, General Auditorium, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North Carolina. The assessment will evaluate the health of Atlantic menhaden and inform the management…
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