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Consider Final Report from Work Group on Precautionary Management in Chesapeake Bay; Progress Update on 2025 Ecological Reference Point Benchmark Stock Assessment; Provide Direction to Technical Committee on 2026-2028 Stock Projections
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Ecological Reference Point Workgroup
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Amid all the gloom-and-doom reporting, good news often slips by unnoticed. That seems to be the case with menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Prompted in part by the College of William & Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology study saying ospreys are suffering from a menhaden shortage, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission formed a work group in September to weigh new “precautionary” harvest limits.
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The Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) and Ecological Reference Point Workgroup (ERP) met in Arlington, Virginia, and via webinar to discuss a re-analysis of the historic tagging data that resulted in a different estimate of natural mortality and model development of the single-species Beaufort Assessment Model (BAM) and suite of ERP models.
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