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In 2022, we continued a multi-year study in the Columbia River estuary to detect juvenile Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. marked with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags.

In 2021, we continued a multi-year study in the Columbia River estuary to detect juvenile Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. marked with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags.

In 2019, we continued a multi-year study in the Columbia River estuary to detect juvenile Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. marked with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags. Fish were detected using a surface pair trawl with a matrix of rectangular PIT antennas fitted into the cod end. The matrix was configured with three parallel antennas in f ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey (MRFSS) collects data for estimating the impact of marine recreational fishing on marine resources. This information is used by Fishery Management Councils, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), as well as Federal and State resource agenc ...

The primary focus of the restoration to date has been the American shad. The restoration approach involves egg collection, hatchery production, trap and transfer of pre-spawn adults, monitoring of adult populations below Conowingo Dam, monitoring of juvenile and adult shad populations above Conowingo Dam, and special studies as identified by SRAFRC ...

This grant was received by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission pursuant to the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (P.L. 103-206) to assist the Commission in meeting the requirement of the Act to improve cooperative fisheries management among the Atlantic Coast states. The goal of the grant, A Cooperative State-Federal ...

In August of 1996, Maryland DNR allocated $10,000 of unspent Coastal Cooperative Act money (award NA56FGO461) to ASMFC to develop an eel FMP. I have asked for and received two no-cost extensions to December 31, 1997 to allow ASMFC to complete the objectives of the original grant. These objectives have been achieved with the completion of a joint me ...

This study was designed to help determine the population abundances of American shad and striped bass within the District of Columbia. This estimate will give the District a better handle on the size of the spring spawning populations entering the District, and the number of fish which will be available to move upstream once a notch is put into the ...

The purpose of this project is to ensure that the Virginia Marine Resources Commission maintains and enhances its finfish enforcement efforts, in particular the enforcement of those regulations promulgated to implement the fishery management plans of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC).

With the passage of the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act of 1993 (Act) and later certification of $163,400 of federal funds to New Jersey for fiscal year 1996, a number of new planning, research, monitoring and enforcement activities were initiated to address compliance issues of several Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commiss ...

This grant funded or partially funded three jobs. Job 1 (category 1 of the funding priorities identified in Section 804 of the Act) involved the cost of additional legal advertising to hold public hearings (as required by the Maryland-Virginia Potomac River Compact) for the adoption or modification of fisheries regulations. Regulations dealing with ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey (MRFSS) collects data for estimating the impact of marine recreational fishing on marine resources.

Job Objective: To provide transportation for Environmental Police officers assigned to enforce state fisheries regulations pursuant to the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (ACFMA) and to foster an effective state program in support of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Interstate Fishery Management Progra ...

Job objective: To facilitate the involvement of fishery user groups, conservationists, and the general public in the interstate fisheries management process as mandated under the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act.

The passage of the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (ACFCMA) in 1993 placed additional responsibilities on Atlantic coast states to cooperatively manage interjurisdictional species through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC). Currently there are ten ASMFC species management plans that the state of New Hampsh ...

The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries participates in ACFCMA by continuing to enhance it's staff capabilities in the areas of Information Systems, Fisheries Economics and Population Dynamics. Specifically, these enhanced capabilities will allow the Division to develop and conduct more efficient quota monitoring systems, evaluate economic a ...

The Pennsylvania Fish Commission, now Fish and Boat Commission, was created in 1866 for the specific purpose of restoring American shad to the Susquehanna River. Renewed efforts to restore anadromous fish to the Susquehanna River began in the 1960's and are presently conducted under the auspices of the Susquehanna River Anadromous Fish Restoration ...