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The ASMFC Tautog Technical Committee met to consider state reduction proposals to achieve a fishing mortality rate of 0.20 as required in Addendum IV, consider state specific assessments, and elect a Vice-Chair.
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The Tautog Technical Committee held a conference call this morning to discuss state reduction proposals required in Addendum IV to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Tautog. The Addendum requires states to submit proposals to achieve a fishing mortality rate F = 0.20 (28.6% reduction), by April 6, 2007.
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Addendum IV establishes spawning stock biomass target and threshold reference points allowing the ASMFC to determine whether or not the stock is overfished.1 This Addendum also establishes a new rebuilding fishing mortality rate of F = 0.20 to initiate rebuilding to the spawning stock biomass threshold and target levels.
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Addendum Establishes Stock Rebuilding Program
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The Tautog Advisory Panel Convened via a phone conference at 3:30 pm on January 18, 2007. Chris Vonderweidt began the meeting with an overview of Draft Addendum IV for Public Comment that had been mailed to all AP members prior to the meeting.
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Questions and Answers Concerning Enforcement of Tautog Regulations
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The meeting of the Tautog Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Presidential Room of the Radisson Hotel Old Towne, Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday, January 30, 2007, and was called to order at 8:00 o’clock, a.m., by Mr. David Pierce.
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2006 Undersize Blackfish and Undersize Scup Enforcement Report (additions from December 2006)
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The meeting of the Tautog Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission convened in the Fear/Outlook/Atlantic Room of the Sheraton Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, and was called to order at 1:45 o’clock, p.m., by Patrick Augustine.
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Tautog Management Board approved the development of Draft Addendum IV to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Tautog. The Draft Addendum will propose the establishment of new biological reference points (target and threshold limits for biomass and fishing mortality) to define stock rebuilding goals. This action is taken in response…
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Arlington, VA – The 2006 peer-reviewed stock assessment report indicates the tautog resource continues to be at low biomass levels. Since the mid-1980s tautog has undergone a substantial decrease in biomass and remains at a low level of abundance. Total stock biomass has been stable since 1999. Since the plan does not define a specific…
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