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(from Jersey Coast Anglers Association January 2004 Newsletter)
New York, NY - The Commission's Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board decided to not implement the payback provision of Addendum VIII. This provision would have required states that exceeded their annual summer flounder recreational harvest limit to deduct overages from the following year's quota. While the Board did not take action to address the problem of recreational overages at this time, it committed to working with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council on a future amendment to address the issue. The Board approved one provision of Addendum VIII, establishing 1998 as the base year for calculating the proportion of state-specific recreational allocations. This action was based on the recommendation of the Technical Committee that 1998 is the most appropriate base year, since it was the last year regulations among the various states were consistent.While the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council manage summer flounder jointly, the Board's actions regarding Addendum VIII are taken exclusively under the states' management authority. Addendum VIII will be available on the Commissions web site on January 10.
For more information please contact, Toni Kerns, Fisheries Management Plan Coordinator, at (202) 289-6400, ext. 330 or tkerns@asmfc.org .
Tina Berger
Public Affairs Specialist
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
1444 I Street. NW, Sixth Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202)289-6400
FAX: (202)289-6051
Email: tberger@asmfc.org
ASMFC Vision: Healthy, self-sustaining populations of all Atlantic coast fish species or successful restoration well in progress by the year 2015.
