Supplemental environmental assessment, fishing year 2014 Gulf of Maine cod and haddock recreational management measures : supplements the environmental assessment for framework adjustment 51 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan

Ruccio, Michael P.; Bullard, John K. (John Kilburn); Steinback, Scott R.; Cardiasmenos, Timothy; Anderson, Jennifer

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Supplemental environmental assessment, fishing year 2014 Gulf of Maine cod and haddock recreational management measures : supplements the environmental assessment for framework adjustment 51 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan

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2014
By Ruccio, Michael P. ; Bullard, John K. (John Kilburn) ; Steinback, Scott R. ; ...

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Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan; Fishing Year 2014 Recreational Management Measures; Supplement to Framework Adjustment 51 Environmental Assessment ; 140410_SEA_Framework_51_Multispecies_Haddock_Cod_L.pdf
Personal Author:

Ruccio, Michael P. ; Bullard, John K. (John Kilburn) ; Steinback, Scott R. ; Cardiasmenos, Timothy ; Anderson, Jennifer
Corporate Authors:

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration., Office of Program Planning and Integration, ; United States, National Marine Fisheries Service, ; Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
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"The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has prepared this supplemental analysis to evaluate potential impacts that would result from the proposed action to revise fishing year (FY) 2014 recreational management measures for Gulf of Maine (GOM) cod and haddock. The FY 2013 recreational fisheries catch for these two species exceeded the sub-annual catch limits (ACLs) established for the recreational fisheries. As outlined by the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP), recreational management measures must be adjusted moving forward to ensure FY 2014 recreational catch does not again exceed the GOM cod and haddock sub-ACLs. In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), NMFS evaluated the potential impacts of a range of catch limits and management measures, including a revised rebuilding program for the GOM cod stock, in an Environmental Assessment (EA) submitted to NMFS by the New England Fishery Management Council (Council), on February 24, 2014. However, the timing of recreational fisheries data availability is such that the Council was unable to discuss and analyze revision of recreational fishery measures until February 25, 2014. Thus no analysis of recreational measures is provided in the Framework 51 analyses. The conclusion reached in the EA completed by the Council for Framework 51 is that the action of approving the preferred measures, including a range of catch limits and management measures including the recreational sub-ACLs for GOM cod and haddock, would not significantly impact the quality of the human environment. All beneficial and adverse impacts of the proposed FY 2014 measures are evaluated in the Framework 51 EA, resulting in the conclusion of no significant impacts. This supplemental EA presents impact information on the physical, biological, habitat, and socio-economic ecosystem components that would result from revising measures for the FY 2014 GOM cod and haddock recreational fisheries. This document is not a stand-alone document, but rather a supplemental EA, intended to be utilized in conjunction with the attached Framework 51 EA"--Introduction (page 4).
Keywords:

Atlantic Cod Catch Effort Conservation Environmental Impact Analysis Environmental Impact Statements Environmental Policy Fisheries Fishery Management Fishery Policy Government Policy Groundfishes Haddock Overfishing Sustainable Fisheries Atlantic Cod Catch Effort Environmental Impact Analysis Environmental Impact Statements Environmental Policy Fishery Management Fishery Policy Government Policy Sustainable Fisheries
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Environmental Assessment
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United States ; Atlantic Coast (New England) ; Maine, Gulf of ; Georges Bank
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