Compliance with Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act

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• Personal Author:
  Carpenter, Kirby A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Potomac River Fisheries Commission
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  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 such things as size limits, seasons, creel limits, quota and harvest reporting requirements being stipulated in the many and varied ASMFC adopted fishery management plans. In addition this job included funding for the public education cost of information necessary for effective implementation of the these plans under the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act. During the grant period public hearings were held in December 1995, June 1996 and November 1997. The changes made at each of these public hearings necessitated the printing and distribution of thousands of new fish size limit charts. These publications have become known locally as the "blue sheets" and are widely available throughout the area They have contributed greatly to the public's understanding of the rules for fishing in the Potomac, and the printing of the "blue sheets" continues with other funding sources. Job 2 (category 2 of the funding priorities identified in Section 804 of the Act) involved the enhancement of the management and analysis of fisheries data. This was accomplished by the addition of a personal computer together with the necessary· computer programming suppon and the hiring and training of a data entry clerk. The additional computer and personnel enabled a more timely collection and maintenance of recreational striped bass harvest estimates for the Potomac, thus improving the timeliness and accuracy of harvest information the Commission provides to meet reporting requirements of the fishery management plan. Additionally the commercial harvest reponing system was enhanced so as to provide timely estimates of the summer flounder and blue fish harvest from the Potomac. The actual recorded harvest information, together with a "projection" for of the rest of the year based on past landings patterns, was regularly submitted to the Maryland and Virginia authorities to assist them in monitoring their commercial landings. This information is needed to avoid overages of state quotas and to comply with the reponing requirements of the respective fishery management plans. Job 3 ( category 3 of the funding priorities identified in Section 804 of the Act) involved the characterization of the Potomac River pound net fishery. Information on the spacial, temporal, size and age frequency distribution patterns of fishes in the Potomac was needed to determine effective regulations necessary to implement various provisions of the fishery management plans. Scientific sampling of existing commercially set pound nets throughout the lower Potomac was the most cost effective means of collecting the base line biological data. This job was done via contract with VIMS,and complete results can be found in the final repon "Potomac River PoundNet Survey, Summers 1996 - 1997" by Herben M. Austin, Kevin Hovel, William Connelly and Andrea Goodnight, 1998. Copies of which are enclosed.
• Keywords:
  Coasts Federal Government Fisheries Fishery Management Fishing Interstate Agreements Marine Resources Conservation Rivers State Governments Federal Government Fishery Management Interstate Agreements Marine Resources Conservation State Governments

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• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA56FG0396
• Place as Subject:
  Potomac River ; Maryland ; Virginia
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:60987ff755dd6f0bab5df76b526f226d7e09a206aed3fbb5fba199adb5c2ae13a05a9d089b1ac30abbe61a818d78c372e146718450cbafae7adb73516f2edf1c
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/73601/noaa_73601_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.24 MB ]