{"id":10135,"date":"2017-05-31T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:45:59","slug":"draft-summer-flounder-amendment-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/draft-summer-flounder-amendment-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft summer flounder amendment moves forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>ALEXANDRIA, VA \u2013 The draft Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment is moving forward with a much shorter set of objectives, after a joint review by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) in May.<\/p>\n

Summer flounder are found from the US\/Canada border to the southern border of North Carolina, and in both state and federal waters.<\/p>\n

Since 1988, a Joint Fishery Management Plan (JFMP) administered by the Mid-Atlantic council and ASMFC allows for coordination of management strategies and permitting.<\/p>\n

The draft amendment will go forward without addressing the fishery management plans\u2019 goals and objectives, commercial and recreational quota allocation, or recreational fisheries management.<\/p>\n

Instead, the draft amendment will include only commercial fisheries management, with separate amendments for those other issues.<\/p>\n

The result is a focus on federal commercial permits, latent capacity, commercial allocation through quota systems, and landings flexibility.\u00a0 Data collection and monitoring, discards, and a safe harbor policy were dropped, primarily because they could be addressed through ASMFC alone or through the council\u2019s specification process.<\/p>\n

Mid-Atlantic council staffer Kiley Dancey said that any recreational changes such as evaluating the …<\/p>\n

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ALEXANDRIA, VA \u2013 The draft Comprehensive Summer Flounder Amendment is moving forward with a much shorter set of objectives, after a joint review by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) in May. Summer flounder are found from the US\/Canada border to the southern border of North Carolina, and … <\/p>\n

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