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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to review sustainable fishery management plans (SFMP) from Maine (river herring), New York (river herring) and the Delaware River Basin Cooperative (shad). In addition, Florida presented a habitat plan for shad.
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The Stock Assessment Subcommittee met to discuss initial work on the trend analyses, Z reference points, incidental catch estimates and discuss the inclusion of data sets that were considered in the benchmark stock assessment, but not included due to time series constraints.
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The Stock Assessment Subcommittee met to review the data that has been submitted by states, discuss SCAA models for Massachusetts and North Carolina, review the prior calculations for Z reference points and divide the river herring trend analyses tasks.
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to discuss the following items: 1) 2017 update of existing Shad and River Herring Sustainable Fishery Management Plans, 2) review the Nemasket River Sustainable Fishery Management Plan, and 3) provide a spring 2016 update on run counts and harvest from each state.
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Stotesbury Grand Ballroom of the Bar Harbor Club, Harborside Hotel, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 25, 2016, and was called to order at 5:48 o’clock p.m. by Chairman William J. Goldsborough.
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Consider Approval of the Nemasket River, Massachusetts Sustainable Fishery Management Plan for River Herring (B. Chase) Final Action; Discuss the Timetable for the Five-Year Update of Shad and River Herring Sustainable Fishery Management Plans (A. Harp); Review Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Decision on Potential Management of Shad and River Herring (B. Goldsborough)
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The Shad and River Herring Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Edison Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, May 3, 2016, and was called to order at 11:58 o’clock a.m. by Chairman Bill Goldsborough.
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Timetable for American Shad and River Herring Stock Assessments (J. Kipp) Action; Report from the Data Standardization Collection Workshop (K. Rootes-Murdy); Update on Activities of the River Herring Technical Expert Work Group (K. Rootes-Murdy); Consider Approval of 2015 Shad and River Herring FMP Review and State Compliance (K. Rootes-Murdy) Action
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The Shad and River Herring Technical Committee (TC) met via conference call to discuss the following items: 1) stock assessments for river herring and American Shad 2) River Herring.com and the website’s utility moving forward 3) receive an update on the Data Collection Standardization Workshop and Report and to 4) Elect a TC Chair and…
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This report is the result of a workshop on Data Collection Standardization held November 18‐20, 2015
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The species of interest for an ageing workshop were Atlantic croaker, black sea bass , bluefish , river herring (alewife and blueback), striped bass, and tautog. Each of these species previously had their own ageing workshop and the group felt that these would be most productive to include in the QA/QC exercise.
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