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Industrial herring trawler access to groundfish Closed Area I - September 4, 2009 Proposed Rule issued by NMFS in regard to herring midwater trawl fleet.
- August 10, 2009 Letter to NMFS Regional Administrator from Herring Alliance regarding NEFMC motion in April 2009 to implement requirements for herring midwater trawl fleet Read the Letter to NMFS Regional Administrator
- December 5, 2008 Follow-up letter to NMFS Regional Administrator from Herring Alliance regarding November 12 letter on haddock bycatch event involving herring midwater trawl fleet. Read the Letter to NMFS Regional Administrator _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ River Herring Bycatch
- June 26, 2009 NEFMC letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce regarding bycatch in small mesh fishery
- June 17, 2009 Letter from commercial fishing, recreational fishing and environmental organizations regarding river herring bycatch.
- May 27, 2009 Letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce from ASMFC and MAFMC requesting Emergency Action _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan - January 13, 2010 Letter to NEFMC regarding Draft Amendment 4 to the Atlantic Herring FMP Letter to NEFMC Herring PDT Chair regarding contemplated changes to the Atlantic Herring FMP's overfishing control rule
- August 4, 2009 Letter to NEFMC Herring Committee and Herring Plan Development Team regarding at-sea catch monitoring alternatives for Atlantic Herring FMP _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Herring Stock Assessment - April 2009 Read the Herring Stock Assessment ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NEFMC Amendment 5 (Monitoring) Technical Documents
-January 2009 NMFS Northeast Fishery Observer Program presentation on herring fishery observer data 2005-2007 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review of Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology - September 2007 The Lenfest Ocean Program has conducted an independent review of NOAA Fisheries Northeast Region Standarized Bycatch Reporting Methodology, and the results are troubling. NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Region has published an Omnibus Fishery Management Plan Amendment and Proposed Rule to implement a Standarized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) across all the Fishery Management Plans in the region. While this plan would purportedly offer the public assurances that alll bycatch will be monitored and reported, Herring Alliance leaders maintain that it is in fact an inadequate management measure undermined by seriously flawed science. Now an independent scientific review of the SBRM conducted by the Lenfest Ocean Program has confirmed those suspicions by revealing a number of problems with the assumptions, approaches and conclusions of the plan. The report, written by Murdoch K. McAllister, PhD, of the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia in September 2007 is available here: "Review of the Northeast Region Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology" |