{"id":4893,"date":"2014-06-23T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2014-06-23T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:58:40","slug":"dmr-calls-maines-2014-glass-eel-ifq-swipe-card-fishery-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/dmr-calls-maines-2014-glass-eel-ifq-swipe-card-fishery-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"DMR calls Maine\u2019s 2014 glass eel IFQ-swipe card fishery a \u2018success\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWELL, ME \u2013 Despite lower landings and lower prices, Maine\u2019s 2014 glass eel (elver) fishery, which came to an end on May 31, was deemed to be a \u201csuccess\u201d by fishery managers.<\/p>\n<p>Elver season opened on April 6 \u2013 two weeks later than usual due to administrative issues \u2013 under an 11,749-pound hard quota, which reflected a 35% reduction from 2013 landings.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) allocated the poundage to fishermen through individual fishing quotas (IFQs) and implemented a new \u201cswipe card\u201d system to track landings.<\/p>\n<p>As of early June, a few days following the fishery\u2019s closure, preliminary reports indicated that harvesters had landed approximately 86% of the total quota and that 371 of the 887 \u201cactive\u201d harvesters had reached their personal IFQ caps.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing started off slowly, possibly due to lingering cold weather that slowed glass eel migration.\u00a0 DMR noted that total landings could rise slightly once final reporting was completed.<\/p>\n<p>Prices were down significantly this year, sometimes bringing in only half to even a third or less of the $2,000-per-pound peaks of the past couple years.<\/p>\n<p>But confrontations and violations in the state also were down significantly.\u00a0 According to the DMR, elver-related violations dropped from 371 during the 2013 season to 71 this season.\u00a0 And, only 15 of those 71 were related to \u201cunlicensed harvesting,\u201d something that proved to be an enormous problem during 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"CFN_7_14cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CFN_7_14cover-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read the rest and much, much more in the\u00a0July issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read online\u00a0immediately and download for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=4864]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWELL, ME \u2013 Despite lower landings and lower prices, Maine\u2019s 2014 glass eel (elver) fishery, which came to an end on May 31, was deemed to be a \u201csuccess\u201d by fishery managers. Elver season opened on April 6 \u2013 two weeks later than usual due to administrative issues \u2013 under an 11,749-pound hard quota, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/dmr-calls-maines-2014-glass-eel-ifq-swipe-card-fishery-a-success\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eelselvers","category-july-14","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}