![]() June - October 2020: The Council and Board revised the draft range of alternatives.įebruary 2021: The Council and Board approved a public hearing document and final range of alternatives during a joint meeting on February 10, 2021. ![]() May 2020: The Council and Board reviewed scoping comments and identified the scope of issues be considered for further development. October 2019: The Council and Bluefish Board affirmed the list of five issues previously identified for consideration in the amendment and agreed to also incorporate development and implementation of a rebuilding plan.įebruary/March 2020: Because the addition of rebuilding modified the scope of the amendment, the Council held additional scoping hearings and collected written comments in early 2020. June/July 2018: The Council and ASMFC held a first round of scoping hearings and collected written comments on the range of issues and information to be considered. Therefore, 2022 will be the first year of the phase-in period for commercial quota reallocation to the states, as well as the first year of the rebuilding plan. These new management measures were used to develop specifications for the 2022 fishing year, beginning on January 1, 2022. ![]() This action was developed through the Council rulemaking process, using the best available science and with many opportunities for public comment, including multiple scoping and public hearings. Revision of the specifications process to account for sources of management uncertainty separately between the commercial and recreational fishery sectors. Revision of the sector quota transfer provisions to allow quota to be transferred in either direction (from commercial to recreational sector or vice versa), with a revised maximum transfer cap of 10-percent of the acceptable biological catch and To allow industry and states to adjust to these changes more easily, the changes in allocation will be phased in equally over a period of seven years Ī 7-year rebuilding plan using a constant fishing mortality model to rebuild the overfished bluefish stock This action is intended to reduce the need for inseason state-to-state quota transfers, and includes a 0.1-percent minimum default allocation to ensure that no state is excluded from the fishery entirely. Re-allocation of the annual bluefish commercial quota among the states within the management unit (Maine to Florida) to better represent current landings trends in the fishery (Table 1). This action allocates 14 percent of the fishery annual catch limit to the commercial fishery and 86 percent to the recreational fishery, which is a 3-percentage point shift to the recreational sector from the prior allocations Re-allocation of the annual bluefish quota between the commercial and recreational fishery sectors to better represent current catch and landings trends. The revisions were developed with input from the public and fishery stakeholders and focus on conservation of the resource, equitable access for all user groups, and effective coordination of management Revision and update of the Bluefish FMP goals and objectives to reflect the current needs of the fishery. Learn more about bluefish recreational regulations at /Marine by clicking on “Recreational Regulations” and “Bluefish,” which is under the “Regulations By Species – General Species” section.Amendment 7 implements the following management measures for the Atlantic bluefish fishery: Because of the assessment results, federal fishery managers adopted more restrictive recreational bag limits in Atlantic federal waters, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission requested states implement similar regulations. A 2019 federal stock assessment found that this Atlantic population of bluefish is overfished. This change was approved at the July Commission meeting.īluefish from Maine through the Atlantic coast of Florida make up a single population. The recreational daily bag limit will be three fish per person along the Atlantic coast from Nassau through Miami-Dade counties.įlorida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) regulations for bluefish do not extend into federal waters of the Atlantic. 26, the following change will be in effect for bluefish: ![]()
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