{"id":10609,"date":"2017-11-02T11:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2017-11-02T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:16:29","slug":"mid-atlantic-council-considers-changes-to-summer-flounder-scup-black-sea-bass-ams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/mid-atlantic-council-considers-changes-to-summer-flounder-scup-black-sea-bass-ams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Atlantic council considers changes to summer flounder, scup, black sea bass AMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RIVERHEAD, NY \u2013 In the first of two meetings on Framework Adjustment 5, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council moved forward on new commercial accountability measures (AMs) for the Summer Flounder, Scup, Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP) at its Oct. 10-12 meeting.<\/p>\n

FW5 will be before the council for final action at its February meeting.<\/p>\n

The current AMs were approved in 2011 and include both pro-active and reactive measures.<\/p>\n

Pro-active measures include closures once the landing quota has been met to avoid exceeding the annual catch limit (ACL), which includes both landings and discards.<\/p>\n

Reactive measures require a pound-for-pound payback in landings if the ACL is exceeded.\u00a0 If the ACL is exceeded in a given year, then the overage must be made up in the next year through a payback.<\/p>\n

But using reactive AMs may reduce quota or require pound-for-pound payback in subsequent years when abundance is high, leading to additional discards, according to Mid-Atlantic council staffer Brandon Muffley.\u00a0 This was the case with black sea bass.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the ACL was exceeded by a nearly 800,000-lb discard overage.\u00a0 The final data on landings and discards was not available until December 2016 and would have required a pound-for-pound payback this year, FY2017.<\/p>\n

When black sea bass underwent a benchmark stock assessment in 2016, the current biomass (B) was twice the target biomass (Bsmy), Muffley said.<\/p>\n

With this information, the council was able to forego the payback as the stock was in good condition.\u00a0 However, there may be times when stock…<\/p>\n

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  RIVERHEAD, NY \u2013 In the first of two meetings on Framework Adjustment 5, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council moved forward on new commercial accountability measures (AMs) for the Summer Flounder, Scup, Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP) at its Oct. 10-12 meeting. FW5 will be before the council for final action at its … <\/p>\n

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