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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 2021 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 conference call to review the Gulf of Maine (GOM) and Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic (SNE/MA) stock assessments, New England Fishery Management Council recommendations for federal specifications, and commercial and recreational fishery trends and to discuss whether adjustments to state water specifications should be made for the 2021 fishing…
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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 and 2017. In each assessment since the benchmark the stock was overfished, but overfishing was not occurring (NEFSC 2015, 2017). The current assessment updates commercial…
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England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Stocks; Presentation of Gulf of Maine Stock Assessment Report (P. Nitschke); Presentation of Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Stock Assessment Report (T. Wood)
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This assessment of the Gulf of Maine winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is a management track assessment of the existing 2017 area-swept operational assessment (NEFSC 2017). 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 abundance,…
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Striped bass, Atlantic croaker, winter flounder, summer flounder, American eel, and tautog were identified as species to evaluate for the 2019 workshop which took place from March 20-21 at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FL FWRI) in St. Petersburg, FL.
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