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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section has released for public comment the Public Information Document (PID) to Amendment 4 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Northern Shrimp. The states of Maine through Massachusetts will be conducting hearings on the PID; the details of those hearings will be released in a subsequent press…
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Consider Approval of Draft Amendment 4 Public Information Document for Public Comment (C. Tuohy)
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) will meet via webinar on June 20 from 1 – 3 PM to consider the approval of the Public Information Document (PID) for Draft Amendment 4 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Northern Shrimp. Due to the continued depleted status of northern shrimp, Draft Amendment…
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The Habitat Committee drafted text descriptions of FHOC for each Commission-managed species drawing on information from the current description of FHOC in the FMPs, species fact sheets, other ASMFC publications, and current literature.
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Portland, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) initiated an amendment to consider implementing a new stock monitoring tool, termed the wake-up index, for Gulf of Maine northern shrimp which would inform when an ongoing moratorium should be re-evaluated if there are signs of improved stock condition. While the amendment…
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Portland, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) initiated an amendment to consider implementing a new stock monitoring tool, termed the wake-up index, for Gulf of Maine northern shrimp which would inform when an ongoing moratorium should be re-evaluated if there are signs of improved stock condition. While the amendment…
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Review 2023 Traffic Light Analysis and Discuss Future of Data Updates (K. Drew); Review Management Strategy Evaluation Work Group Discussions;Technical Committee Report on Wake-Up Index (K. Drew); Review of Possible Management Approaches (C. Tuohy)
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Discussion on the Future of Northern Shrimp Management
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The traffic light analysis of 2023 data indicated no improvement in status, with indices of abundance, spawning stock biomass, and recruitment at new time-series lows. Recruitment has been below the 20th percentile of the 1984-2017 reference period in 9 of the last 11 years. Recent environmental conditions continue to be unfavorable for Gulf of Maine…
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The traffic light analysis of 2022 data indicated no improvement in status, with indices of abundance, spawning stock biomass, and recruitment at new time-series lows.
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To look at potential effects of losing information from the Summer Survey in the near term, the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee (NSTC) compared the results from the current northern shrimp stock assessment model that used different configurations of input data that included truncating the Summer Survey from 2018-2021.
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