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Prepared for the Commissioner Manual — Updated February 2023
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This document summarizes the 2022 Stock Assessment Updates for the Gulf of Maine (GOM) and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) winter flounder stocks. Both assessments revise the 2011 Benchmark Stock Assessments that were peer-reviewed by an independent panel of scientific experts at the 52nd Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock Assessment Review Committee (SAW/SARC 52) meeting.
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Review 2022 Management Track Assessments for Gulf of Maine and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Stocks of Winter Flounder (P. Nitschke/T. Wood); Set Specifications for 2024-2025 Fishing Years; Review Technical Committee Recommendations (R. Balouskus); Review Advisory Panel Report (B. Brown); Consider Fishery Management Plan Review and State Compliance for the 2021 Fishing Year (T. Bauer)
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The Winter Flounder Advisory Panel (AP) met via conference call to review the Gulf of Maine (GOM) and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) stock assessments, provide recommendations for 2024-2025 specifications for state waters, and to comment on any other current fishery management issues of concern to them.
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The Winter Flounder Technical Committee (TC) met via webinar to review the Gulf of Maine (GOM) and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) stock assessments, commercial and recreational fishery trends, and federal specifications for fishing years 2023-2025 approved by New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC).
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This assessment of the Southern New England Mid-Atlantic winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is an operational assessment of the existing benchmark assessment (NEFSC 2011), and follows operational updates in 2015, 2017, and 2020. In each assessment since the benchmark the stock was over shed, but overfishing was not occurring (NEFSC 2015, 2017, 2022). The current assessment…
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This assessment of the Gulf of Maine winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is a management track assessment of the existing 2020 area-swept management track assessment (NEFSC 2022). Based on the previous assessment the biomass status is unknown but overfishing was not occurring. This assessment updates commercial and recreational fishery catch data, research survey indices of…
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