January 2014 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 11. Commercial Fishing News D. M. R. NEWS
New Marine Patrol Offi cer James Mayo- tte to Serve in Casco Bay
James Mayotte of Boothbay Harbor was sworn in as the newest member of the Maine Marine Patrol after a December 20 graduation ceremony at the Maine Crimi- nal Justice Academy. Pictured with Offi cer Mayotte is Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher (left) and Colonel Joseph Fessenden (right), Chief of the Maine Marine Patrol. Offi cer Mayotte will begin patrolling in Casco Bay, which is located in Marine Patrol Division I, Section 2, on January 1. Offi cer Mayotte’s direct supervisor will be Sergeant Robert Beal. “We’re tremendously pleased to be able to increase our patrol resources in that busy area of the Maine coast,” said Colonel Fessenden. “Offi cer Mayotte is an outstand- ing addition to the Maine Marine Patrol.”
NOTICE OF AGENCY RULE-MAK- ING ADOPTION
Chapter 8 Landings Program and Chapter 32 Eels. Elver Reporting Requirements and Swipe Card System; ASMFC Eel Compli- ance Measures.
CONCISE SUMMARY: This adopted rule establishes the procedures and guidelines for a swipe card reporting system for elver dealers and require dealers to maintain re- cords of all elver transactions. The purpose of this portion of the rule is to obtain more accurate and timely information on the amount of elvers caught or landed in Maine for use in fi sheries management as well as to demonstrate the social and economic importance of marine resources to Maine.
The swipe card system is also a more secure system in which harvesters and dealers cannot easily conduct transactions to sell or purchase illegal elvers.
The rule requires elver harvester li- cense holders to present a swipe card to be used by the dealer in order to record each transaction. It would also require dealers to report what they receive from harvesters on a weekly basis during the elver harvesting season using approved electronic reporting methods. Dealers will be required to provide their own computers for reporting (laptops or PC’s), but the reporting software and the swipe card readers/receipt printers will be provided by DMR. In addition, this rule requires elver dealers to maintain paper records for all elver transactions, includ- ing dealer-to-dealer transactions, for three years. Emergency rulemaking was enacted earlier in 2013 that required elver dealers to report quantities on a weekly basis. Pre- viously, elver dealer license holders were required to report information to DMR on a monthly basis. Weekly electronic reporting of elver landings will give the DMR timely and critical information for enforcement and resource protection of this valuable fi shery. Finally, this rule also updates the reporting compliance section with license suspension authority that was enacted in state law as well as update the primary buyer permit language.
This regulation also makes amend- ments in order to come into compliance with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) American Eel Management Board August 2013 approval
of Addendum III to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Eel. The State of Maine is mandated to implement and enforce fi sheries management plans of the ASMFC under the Atlantic Coastal Fish- eries Cooperative Management Act of 1993 (ACFCMA). These changes are refl ected in this new version of Chapter 32 Eels. Addendum III establishes a 9” mini- mum size limit for recreational and commer- cial yellow eel fi sheries, trip-level reporting for the commercial yellow eel fi shery, a seasonal closure of silver eel fi sheries, a 25 recreational fi sh per day creel limit, and measures to restrict the development of fi sh- eries on pigmented eels. It also calls for the implementation of state-specifi c monitoring programs and provides recommendations for habitat improvements. States will be required to implement the Addendum’s measures by January 1, 2014. The Board’s actions respond to the fi ndings of the 2012 benchmark stock assessment indicating the American eel population in U.S. waters is depleted. The stock has declined in recent decades and the prevalence of signifi cant downward trends in multiple surveys across the coast is cause for concern. Many of these changes required by ASMFC are already im- plied in existing Maine law and regulations and therefore do not need to be changed. In some cases, Maine law and regulations are stronger than the new ASMFC compliance requirements. A re-ordering and deletion of obsolete or redundant sections of Chapter 32 Eels were made in order to improve readability and compliance. Finally, closed areas for
elver fi shing were be added in Penobscot and Hancock County in order to clarify legal fi shing boundaries in Chapter 32.03(1)(A). Little or no impact on legal elver harvesting is expected from these new area closures. Two minor changes from the pro- posed rule were made. In 32.01 Defi ni- tions, the word “rigid” was replaced with “non-stretchable” in response to a public comment seeking clarity. Also, the original language for the title of Chapter 32.05 “Fish- ing in the Sheepscot River; Eel Fishing” was kept and not changed to “Eel Fishing Area Closures” as proposed. It was determined that the original title is more descriptive language.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 24, 2014
Survey Confi rms Green Crab Threat to Maine’s Third Most Lucrative Fishery Maine Department of Marine Resourc- es Director of Public Health Kohl Kanwit recently presented over 600 researchers, en-
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