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ASMFC 82nd Annual Meeting October 21 – 24, 2024
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Board to Meet in December to Consider Changing Measures for 2025 to Increase Probability of Rebuilding the Stock
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In August 2024, the Board tasked the Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) with calculations to determine how decreasing recreational release mortality could contribute to any potential reduction needed to achieve rebuilding. Part of this tasking required the TC to identify a method for estimating the reduction in live releases associated with no-targeting closures. The TC…
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The Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) and Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) met via webinar on October 2, 2024 to review the 2024 Stock Assessment Update Report, discuss the projection scenarios, and discuss options and considerations for potential management response. This memorandum summarizes TC-SAS discussion on the likelihood of the different projection scenarios and considerations for…
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Consider management response to stock projections
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82nd Annual Meeting, October 21 – 24, 2024
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The Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Capitol Ballroom via hybrid meeting, in-person, and webinar; Wednesday, October 23, 2024, and was called to order at 1:31 p.m. by Chair Megan Ware.
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Appendices for Model Structure; Diagnostic plots, detailed results, and projections for the base model and sensitivity run; and Hybrid Selectivity and Projections
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The time series of striped bass removals and indices from the 2022 assessment update were extended to include data from 2022-2023. Total removals from 2022-2023 averaged 6.18 million fish, a 20% increase from 2021, the terminal year of the last assessment.
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The Striped Bass Technical Committee (TC) and Stock Assessment Subcommittee met jointly to discuss the 2024 stock assessment update and associated Board tasks regarding measures to achieve stock rebuilding, no targeting closures, recreational release mortality, and evaluating additional methods to support future size-bag-season analyses.
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