February 13, 2019 — Federal fishery regulators are considering new measures for the Atlantic sea scallop management plan and have scheduled a series of public hearings from Maine to Virginia to collect public comment.
The public hearings, which include an April 3 session at the state Division of Marine Fisheries’s Annisquam River Station on Emerson Avenue in Gloucester, will touch upon three primary issues contained in Amendment 21 currently being developed by the New England Fishery Management Council:
* Measures to support a growing scallop fishery in the federal waters of the northern Gulf of Maine.
* Increasing the individual fishing quota possession limit of 600 pounds for those fishing with a limited access general permit.
* Measures that would allow limited access vessels to transfer quota to vessels fishing on a limited access general permit.
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