May 2014 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 13. MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL FISHING NEWS
ASMFC Shifts Date of American Lob- ster Stock Assessment Workshop from May to September
ARLINGTON, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Lobster Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted September 23-25, 2014 at the Na- tional Marine Fisheries Service’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Clark Conference Room (Aquarium), 166 Water Street Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Assessment Workshop, originally scheduled for May 6-8, 2014 was moved to September to allow additional time to fi nalize the datasets for input into the assessment model. The assess- ment will evaluate the health of American lobster and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assess- ment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confi dential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room.
The benchmark stock assessment will be peer reviewed through the Commission’s external peer review process in early 2015. For more information on attending the Assessment Workshop, please contact Kate Taylor, Fishery Management Plan Coordi- nator, at 703.842.0740.
NOAA Fisheries to develop national policy on recreational fi shing NOAA Fisheries has announced plans to develop a national recreational fi shing policy during its second national Saltwater Recreational Fishing Summit. The policy will broadly guide future actions and better integrate recreational fi shing with NOAA Fisheries’ mission.
More than 100 leaders from the salt- water recreational fi shing community met with NOAA Fisheries leadership at the summit, held April 1-2 in Alexandria, Va., to provide an opportunity to assess recent progress, identify future directions and fur- ther strengthen the relationship between the two groups. With nearly 11 million saltwater anglers in the United States, recreational and non-commercial fi shermen represent one of NOAA’s largest organized constituencies. “Resolving issues facing our fi sher- ies today requires partnerships between managers, scientists and people who enjoy the resource,” said Eileen Sobeck, assis- tant NOAA administrator for fi sheries. “I commit that NOAA Fisheries will actively engage the recreational fi shing community
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The meeting provided a forum for iden- tifying important issues and collaborative solutions, including discussing the quality of the data used to count and characterize the recreational catch and fi shing effort, on-the-water fi shing experiences, sharing management priorities, and discussing the importance of healthy habitats.
“This summit is the latest in an ongoing conversation with the saltwater recreational fi shing community,” said Russell Dunn, NOAA Fisheries national policy advisor for recreational fi sheries, “NOAA is committed to backing up words with actions like these.” NOAA Fisheries held the fi rst national saltwater recreational fi shing summit in 2010 to kick-off the agency’s recreational fi shing engagement initiative. The event resulted in development of both national and regional action plans to guide agency activities. NOAA Fisheries committed to work-
ing with the fi shing public, and coordinate with its advisory bodies, regional offi ces and science centers to update the national action plan to refl ect ideas exchanged at the summit.
Wreck of USCS Robert J. Walker added to National Register of Historic Places NOAA has announced that the wreck
of the ship Robert J. Walker, a steamer that served in the U.S. Coast Survey, a prede- cessor agency of NOAA’s Offi ce of Coast Survey, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Walker served as survey ship, charting the Gulf Coast--including Mobile Bay and the Florida Keys--in the decade before the Civil War. It also conducted early work plotting the movement of the Gulf Stream along the Atlantic Coast. Twenty-one men died when Walker sank in rough seas in the early morning hours of June 21, 1860, 10 miles off Absec- on Inlet on the New Jersey coast. The crew had fi nished its latest surveys in the Gulf of Mexico and was sailing to New York when the Walker was hit by a commercial schoo- ner off New Jersey. The side-wheel steamer, carrying 66 crewmembers, sank within 30 minutes. The sinking was the largest single loss of life in the history of NOAA or its predecessor agencies. “Robert J. Walker is a rare and unique
reminder of the pioneering work of the U.S. Coast Survey,” said James Delgado, director of maritime heritage for NOAA’s Offi ce of National Marine Sanctuaries. “The crew of Walker, working from this vessel helped survey and open ports vital to commerce and the national economy before the Civil War. The National Register listing highlights that role as well as the fact that Walker is now the grave of many of its crew, which is why we sought this designation.” Built in 1847, the Walker was one of the U.S. government’s fi rst iron-hulled steam- ers, and was intended for the U.S. Revenue Service, the predecessor of the United States Coast Guard. Instead, the Walker and some of its sister steamers were sent to the U.S. Coast Survey, established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 to survey the coast and produce the nation’s nautical charts. Last year, NOAA and its partners con-
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fi rmed the Walker’s location and identity as part of a private-public collaboration that included research provided by New Jersey wreck divers and government and university maritime archaeologists. NOAA does not plan to make the wreck a sanctuary or limit diving, but to work with New Jersey’s wreck diving community to better understand the wreck and the stories it can tell. The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s offi cial list of cultural places considered worth preserving. Autho- rized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Register is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archaeological resources. Properties listed in the National Register can qualify for federal grants for historic preservation.
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