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NMFS issues new rules for Midwater Trawl Vessels Fishing in Groundfish Closed Area I |
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New requirements will be effective on November 2, 2009 for any vessel issued an All Areas or an Areas 2 and 3 limited access herring permit fishing in Northeast (NE) multispecies Closed Area I under the authority of the Gulf of Maine (GOM)/Georges Bank (GB) Herring Midwater Trawl Gear Letter of Authorization (LOA). These new requirements, implemented at the request of the New England Fishery Management Council (Council), as more fully explained below, are as follows: 100% observer coverage and a prohibition on releasing catch before it is sampled by the observer, except in specific circumstances, for midwater trawl herring vessels when fishing in NE multispecies Closed Area I.
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ACTION ALERT: SUSTAINABLE FISHING IN NEW ENGLAND |
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Please help us urge fishery managers to heed an emerging scientific consensus that all is not well with the herring stock, and that catch limits should be reduced to protect against a fishery collapse
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ACTION ALERT: American shad stocks at all-time lows |
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On August 20th, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) released Draft Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Shad and River Herring for public comment (PDF). The amendment was developed in response to a 2007 American shad stock assessment which found the stocks at historic lows.
The assessment raises red flags about the Atlantic's forage base
because young shad, like their imperiled river herring cousins, are
important prey throughout their range, supporting many predators such
as striped bass, weakfish, sharks, tuna, king mackerel, shorebirds and
porpoises.
SEND A LETTER TO THE ASMFC
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Cape Cod Times: Herring regulations sensible, urgently needed |
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Letter to the Editor
I'd like to thank the Cape Cod Times for
covering the critical issue of herring trawlers damaging our local
fisheries ("Fishermen urge quick action on herring fleet," Sept. 21).
As
a lifelong fisherman, I've seen this damage firsthand, including the
alarming haddock bycatch that triggered the new herring regulations
proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Cape Cod Times: Fishermen urge quick action on herring fleet |
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Local
fishermen have requested that Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke impose
an emergency action on the herring fleet currently fishing in waters
off Cape Cod.
The measure would require
federal fishery observers on every boat and that no catch be dumped
overboard unless it has been sampled by those observers.
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