December 2016 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 11. M C F N
ASMFC Summer Flounder Board Ini- tiates Draft Addendum for Alternative Management Options for 2017 Recre- ational Fishery
BAR HARBOR, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Manage- ment Board initiated development of Draft Addendum XXVIII to the Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to con- sider alternative management approaches, including regional options, for the 2017 recreational summer fl ounder fi shery. The Draft Addendum will have options which are designed to achieve the 2017 recreation- al harvest limit (RHL). Changes in summer fl ounder distri-
bution, abundance and availability created problems under the static state-by-state allocations, with overages often occur- ring. In response, states would implement regulations to reduce harvest, resulting in diff ering regulations between neighboring states. In 2014, the Board shifted away from traditional state-by-state allocations to a regional approach for managing summer fl ounder recreational fi sheries. A benefi t of the regional approach is it provides the states the fl exibility to temporarily share al- locations. The intent is to set regulations that account for shifting distribution, abundance and availability while providing stability and greater regulatory consistency among neighboring states as well as individual states in achieving but not exceeding the coastwide RHL. In August, the Board and Mid-Atlantic
Fishery Management Council (Council) approved a 30% reduction in the 2017 coastwide RHL relative to 2016. This was in response the 2016 Stock Assessment Update which found fi shing mortality was higher in recent years and population estimates were lower than previously projected.
The Draft Addendum will be presented
to the Board for its consideration and ap- proval for public comment at its joint meet- ing with the Council in December in Balti- more, Maryland. At that meeting, the Board and Council will also consider extending ad-hoc regional approaches for 2017 black sea bass and scup recreational management in state waters. The Board and Council are scheduled to review the Black Sea Bass Stock Assessment Report and Peer Review Report and consider possible management responses at their joint meeting in February 2017 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. For more information, please contact
Kirby Rootes-Murdy, Senior Fishery Man- agement Plan Coordinator, at krootes-mur-
dy@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.
ASMFC Atlantic Herring Section
Initiates Addendum to Improve Perfor- mance of Area 1A Fishery
BAR HARBOR, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Section initiated Addendum I to Amend- ment 3 of the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Herring to improve the performance of the Area 1A (inshore Gulf of Maine) Atlantic herring fi shery. The purpose of the addendum is to develop additional management alternatives for the days out program. It is in response to the accelerated pace of Area 1A Trimester 2 (June through September) landings in recent years and the increasingly dynamic nature of days out measures to control Trimester 2 eff ort that have varied across states. The Section utilizes days out of the
fi shery to slow the rate of Area 1A catch so the seasonal quota can be distributed throughout each trimester. Currently, the days out program is specifi c to landing day restrictions. The increase in the number of larger carrier vessels in the area has rendered
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days out less eff ective in controlling eff ort because vessels can transfer catch to large carrier vessels at-sea, allowing harvesters additional days of fi shing beyond the days that are open to landings. In 2016, Maine’s Department of Marine
Resources (DMR) implemented a series of emergency rules that were more restrictive than Commission measures in an attempt to extend the Trimester 2 quota into September. These rules included a weekly landing limit, restricted landing and fi shing days, as well as at sea transfer restrictions. DMR’s measures only applied to vessels landing in Maine. New Hampshire and Massachusetts imple- mented one of these management measures – three consecutive landing days. The Draft Addendum will explore these measures and potentially others that could be uniformly applied by the Area 1A of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For more information on Area 1A fi sh-
ery performance in the 2015 and 2016 fi shing year that brought about the need for alterna- tive management measures refer to a white paper, which is available on the Commission website at
http://www.asmfc.org/uploads/ file/58124582AtlHerringArea1AFish- eryPerformance_2015_2016.pdf. For more information, please con-
tact Ashton Harp, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at
aharp@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.
ASMFC American Lobster Board Ap- proves Jonah Crab Draft Addendum II
Commercial Fishing News for Public Comment
BAR HARBOR, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Lobster Management Board approved Draft Addendum II to the Jonah Crab Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for public com- ment. The Draft Addendum considers estab- lishing a coastwide standard for claw harvest to address concerns regarding the equity of the current claw provision. Specifi c options include establishing a whole crab fi shery or allowing for the harvest of claws coast- wide. The Draft Addendum also considers establishing a defi nition of bycatch, based on a percent composition of catch, in order to minimize the expansion of a small-scale fi shery under the bycatch allowance. The FMP currently establishes a whole
crab fi shery with the exception of fi sher- men from NJ, DE, MD, and VA who have a history of claw landings prior to June 2, 2015. Following approval of the FMP, claw
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