September 3, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
The meeting summary and motions from the September 1 webinar of the ASMFC Tautog Management Board is now available at http://www.asmfc.org/files/
Reminder: Atlantic Herring Fishery Restrictions in Management Area 1A
September 2, 2020 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
NOAA Fisheries reminds participants in the Atlantic herring fishery that the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts implement fishery restrictions, including landing limits, landing days, and spawning closures, on herring landed from herring management area 1A.
Details of these fishery restrictions can be found on the Commission’s Atlantic herring webpage.
Atlantic Herring Days Out Meeting Scheduled for September 17
September 1, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
The Commission’s Atlantic Herring Management Board members from the states of Maine and New Hampshire and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will meet on September 17, 2020 from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m., to discuss days out measures (i.e., consecutive landings days) for the 2020 Area 1A fishery (inshore Gulf of Maine) for Season 2 (October 1 – December 31). This meeting will be held via webinar. The call and webinar information are included below:
Atlantic Herring Days Out Meeting
September 17, 2020
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
You can join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone at the following link:https://global.
The 2020 Area 1A allowable catch limit (ACL) is 2,957 metric tons (mt) after adjusting for the research set-aside, the 30 mt fixed gear set-aside, and the fact that Area 1A closes at 92% of the sub-ACL. The Board established the following allocations for the 2020 Area 1A ACL: 72.8% available from June 1 – September 30 and 27.2% available from October 1 – December 31.
Please contact Max Appelman, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at 703.842.0740 or mappelman@asmfc.org for more information.
The meeting announcement can also be found at http://www.asmfc.org/files/
REMINDER: ASMFC Tautog Management Board Webinar Tomorrow at 1:30 PM
August 31, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
This is a reminder that the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Tautog Management Board will meet via webinar tomorrow (September 1) from 1:30 – 3:30 PM to consider requirements for the 2021 commercial tagging program and receive a progress update on the 2021 stock assessment update. Meeting materials are available athttp://www.asmfc.org/files/
To listen to and participate in the webinar, please register at https://attendee.
ASMFC Begins Preparations for Red Drum Benchmark Stock Assessment
August 27, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has begun work on the next Red Drum Benchmark Stock Assessment and is requesting data from academia, member states, federal partners, non-governmental organizations, participating jurisdictions and stakeholders. A data workshop will occur in November 2020 with specific dates still to be determined.
The Commission welcomes the submission of data sources that will improve the accuracy of the assessment. This includes, but is not limited to, data on catch per unit effort, tag-recapture data, biological samples (lengths, ages), and life history information (growth, maturity, natural mortality). For data sets to be considered, the data must be sent in the required format with accompanying description of methods to Jeff Kipp, Stock Assessment Scientist, at jkipp@asmfc.org by October 1, 2020.
For more information about the assessments or the submission and presentation of materials, please contact Savannah Lewis, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at slewis@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.
ASMFC Tautog Management Board Webinar Materials Now Available
August 25, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
Meeting materials for the upcoming webinar of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Tautog Management Board are now available at http://www.asmfc.org/files/
ASMFC American Shad Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report
August 24, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Shad Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Report, as well as the Assessment Overview are now available on the Commission’s Shad & River Herring webpage,http://www.asmfc.org/
American Shad Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report (Aug 2020)
Atlantic Herring Days Out Call on August 21 – Canceled; Area 1A Fishery Moves to Zero Landing Days for Season 1 on August 23; and Eastern Maine Spawning Closure in Effect Starting August 28
August 20, 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
Season 1 Landing Day Adjustment/Canceled Call
The Area 1A (inshore Gulf of Maine) Atlantic herring fishery is projected to have harvested 92% of the Season 1 allocation by August 20, 2020. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, August 23, 2020, the Area 1A fishery will move to zero landing days through September 30, 2020, as specified in Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Herring. Therefore, the previously scheduled Days Out call on August 21, 2020, at 8:30 AM has been canceled.
Vessels participating in other fisheries may not possess more than 2,000 pounds of Atlantic herring per trip per day harvested from Area 1A. In addition, all vessels traveling through Area 1A must have all seine and mid-water trawl gear stowed.
The Atlantic Herring Management Board members from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts are expected to reconvene in September via conference call to set effort controls for the 2020 Area 1A fishery for Season 2 (October 1 – December 31). An announcement will be issued once the meeting is scheduled.
Eastern Maine Spawning Closure
Additionally, the Area 1A fishery regulations include seasonal spawning closures for portions of state and federal waters in Eastern Maine, Western Maine and Massachusetts/New Hampshire. The Commission’s Atlantic Herring Management approved a forecasting method that relies upon at least three samples, each containing at least 25 female herring in gonadal states III-V, to trigger a spawning closure. However, if sufficient samples are not available then closures will begin on predetermined dates.
There are currently no samples from the Eastern Maine spawning area to determine spawning condition. Therefore, per the Addendum II default closure dates, the Eastern Maine spawning area will be closed starting at 12:01 a.m. on August 28, 2020 extending through 11:59 p.m. on October 9, 2020. Eastern Maine spawning area includes all waters bounded by the following coordinates:
Maine coast 68° 20’ W
43° 48’ N 68° 20’ W
44° 25’ N 67° 03’ W
North along the US/Canada border
The same 2,000 pounds incidental bycatch allowance applies for non-directed fisheries that are fishing within the Eastern Maine spawning area during a spawning closure.
For more information, please contact Max Appelman, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at 703.842.0740 or mappelman@asmfc.org.
Meeting Summaries and Motions from the Joint ASMFC/MAFMC August Meeting Webinar
August 14. 2020 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
Meeting summaries and motions from the Joint meeting of the MAFMC and ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass and Bluefish Boards are now available at http://www.asmfc.org/files/
Regulators find shad, an important fish, are ‘depleted’
August 11, 2020 — Overfishing, dams and pollution are among the factors that have steeply reduced the population of an ecologically important fish on the East Coast, regulators have said.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission recently completed an assessment of the population of American shad and found it to be “depleted,” the commission said. Changing ocean conditions and climate change have also likely played a role in reducing the fish’s population from historic levels, it said.
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