{"id":4996,"date":"2014-07-28T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:07:07","slug":"herring-industry-struggles-with-haddock-cap-area-1b-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/herring-industry-struggles-with-haddock-cap-area-1b-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Herring industry struggles with haddock cap; Area 1B concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, ME \u2013 Prompted by a request from industry, the New England Fishery Management Council in mid-June considered but rejected a motion seeking emergency action regarding the haddock catch cap that is expected to constrain the herring midwater trawl fleet on Georges Bank by early fall.<\/p>\n

The council also discussed \u2013 in painstaking detail \u2013 the quota overage that occurred in Area 1B in May and voted to charge its herring committee with developing alternatives to \u201cconsider revising\u201d management area boundaries to \u201cbetter facilitate adherence to herring sub-ACLs\u201d and \u201caddress the impacts of concentrated fishing on inshore areas along the backside of Cape Cod.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both issues were difficult and emotionally charged for supporters and opponents alike.<\/p>\n

Speaking broadly about it all, council member Dave Preble of Rhode Island said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the answer is here, but clearly there\u2019s a problem and this has to be settled.\u00a0 This constant fighting with the herring fishery is going beyond the point of absurdity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate took place on June 19 at the tail end of the council\u2019s three-day meeting in Portland.\u00a0 First up was the request for emergency action.\u00a0 Maine council member Mary Beth Tooley, who recused herself from the final vote, presented the industry\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

As it stands now, the herring midwater trawl fleet is limited to 1% of the US acceptable biological catch (ABC) for Georges Bank haddock.\u00a0 This 1% \u2013 minus a bit to account for management uncertainty \u2013 becomes the haddock quota or sub-annual catch limit (sub-ACL) for the herring midwater trawl fishery on Georges.<\/p>\n

Tooley explained that, if 2014 bycatch ratios remain similar to what they were in 2012 and 2013, the herring fishery will reach this year\u2019s haddock catch cap by September, forcing a closure of the Area 3 herring fishery.<\/p>\n

The 2014 haddock cap is 179 metric tons (mt), down significantly from the 286-mt cap for 2012 and the 273-mt cap for 2013.\u00a0 The current 179 mt is likely to be reduced even further to 167 mt to account for a 12-mt overage of the 2013 cap…<\/p>\n

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Read the rest and much, much more in the August issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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PORTLAND, ME \u2013 Prompted by a request from industry, the New England Fishery Management Council in mid-June considered but rejected a motion seeking emergency action regarding the haddock catch cap that is expected to constrain the herring midwater trawl fleet on Georges Bank by early fall. The council also discussed \u2013 in painstaking detail \u2013 … <\/p>\n

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