Squid Workshop Summary Jason Didden Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Katie Latanich Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability Forum
"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?