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"Responsive Management" Management-based solutions that improve the industry’s ability to utilize an existing quota Identifying generally high abundance periods - "signposts" "Cohort-based" & "real-time" strategiesTRANSCRIPT
Squid Workshop SummaryJason DiddenJason Didden
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management CouncilCouncil
Katie LatanichKatie LatanichFisheries Leadership & Sustainability Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability
ForumForum
"Responsive Management"
Management strategies for responding to the widely variable seasonal and year to year fluctuations in squid abundance.
"Responsive Management"
Management-based solutions that improve the industry’s ability to utilize an existing quota
Identifying generally high abundance periods - "signposts"
"Cohort-based" & "real-time" strategies
Potential Management Changes
Effort/Capacity issues
Longfin trimesters & roll-overs
Trip notification (longfin) timing Longfin notification triggers (pounds)
Potential Management Changes
Effort/Capacity issues Amendment
Longfin trimesters & roll-overs
Trip notification (longfin) timing Longfin notification triggers (pounds)
Potential Management Changes
Effort/Capacity issues
Longfin trimesters & roll-overs
Trip notification (longfin) timing Specs/
Longfin notification triggers (lbs) FW
Potential Management Changes
GRAs
Scup, Lobster, Tilefish,
– Deep Water Corals (??)
(Frameworkable – Other Plans)
Potential Management Changes
Identify short-term steps to improve data availability in support of medium and long-term outcomes.
– Staff white paper to extend workshop summary and keep momentum on issues
Vehicles for Changes Federal Register Notice Specifications Frameworks Amendments
Vehicles for Changes Some measures designated for certain
actions Depends on how many measures at once Depends on level of controversy Council and NMFS staff evaluate potential
actions and suggest appropriate vehicle
Vehicles Federal Register Notice
– Control dates (currently 2003)
Longfin & Illex: none, either, both
Vehicles Specifications
– Quotas– Trip limits– Seasonal quotas (rollover)– Gear restrictions– Accountability Measures– Any measures necessary to assure that
quotas will not be exceeded
Vehicles Frameworks
Adjusting current measures not typically adjusted during specifications
E.g. - Changing GRAs
Vehicles Amendments
– New measures
– Substantial impacts Allocations, Economic, Biological
– Collections of alterations that would cumulatively result in major change for fishery
Potential Next Steps AP Meeting Next Week
Port Meetings? (Cape May & Pt. Judith)
Specs process is spinning up….?
Control Date
Questions?Questions?