October 29, 2015 — PLYMOUTH, MA – At its Sept. 29-Oct. 1 meeting here, the New England Fisheries Management Council added alternatives to Framework Adjustment 55 to the Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to include enforcement, adding a new sector, and to make the at-sea monitoring program more efficient and cost effective.
Changes in federal policy on observer funding in early 2015 made it apparent that the fishing industry would be required to fund some or all of the at-sea monitoring (ASM) required under AMD 16 and Framework 48 to the groundfish FMP.