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Press Releases, Meeting Summary and Motions from the Joint Meeting of the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Board & MAFMC Now Available

March 11, 2019 — The Following was published by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council:

Press releases, the meeting summary and motions from the joint meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Board and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council last week are now available at http://www.asmfc.org/files/Meetings/ASMFC_MAFMCSFlounderScupBSB_march2019(1).pdf.  The document can also be obtained on the Commission website on the Meeting Archives page at http://www.asmfc.org/home/meeting-archive.

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