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The Council adopted new definitions of optimum yield and overfishing for red drum in 1998. Optimum yield was now defined as 40% static spawning potential ratio (SPR), an overfishing definition of less than 30% SPR, and a threshold overfishing level of 10% SPR. In 1999, the Council recommended that management authority for red drum be…
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An assessment of the status of the Atlantic stock of red drum is conducted using recreational and commercial data from 1986 through 1998. This assessment updates data and analyses from the 1989, 1991, 1992 and 1995 stock assessments on Atlantic coast red drum (Vaughan and Helser, 1990; Vaughan 1992; 1993; 1996).
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Amendment 1 replaces an earlier ASMFC plan that was developed in 1984. Amendment 1 updates ASMFC management strategies for red drum in state waters and is coordinated with South and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council planning for red drum in federal waters.
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The purpose of this fishery management plan is to manage the red drum fishery in the territorial sea of the Atlantic Ocean from Maryland to Florida. The goal of the plan is to perpetuate the red drum resource in fishable abundance throughout its range and generate the greatest possible economic and social benefits from its…
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