The Council Report summarizes major issues voted on or discussed at each regularly scheduled meeting of the NEFMC. The Council’s 18 members met most recently on April 24-26, 2012 in Mystic, CT.
At its April meeting, the Council addressed issues related to protected species, groundfish, a report by the Scientific and Statistical Committee, scallops, habitat, small mesh fisheries, monkfish and dogfish.
• Additionally, a number of presentations were received on the following topics and are available on the Council’s website, www.nefmc.org:
• Overviews of the potential implications of the April 6, 2012 Atlantic sturgeon ESA listing on NEFMC fishery management plans and recent changes to the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan;
• A summary of the assessment and data updates for 13 Northeast groundfish stocks through 2010;
• Northeast Fisheries Science Center plans for future Atlantic sea scallop surveys, including details
about the testing and use of the towed underwater camera “HabCam”; and
• An overview of the Scientific and Statistical Committee’s most recent meeting.
View the complete NEFMC Council report