Community-based Sectors for the New England Groundfish Fishery
Community-based Sectors for the New England Groundfish Fishery
Community-based Sectors for the New England Groundfish Fishery
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Tri-State Sector<br />
Erik Brazer<br />
Requests<br />
• Implementation in 2008<br />
• Allocation of all GF species, monkfish, skates and dogfish (29 stocks)<br />
• Full retention of legal size groundfish, monkfish, skates, and dogfish<br />
• Will use monthly quotas<br />
• 2,000 pounds minimum allocation <strong>for</strong> every stock (allow <strong>for</strong> incidental catch);<br />
• Trading quota between sectors if both sectors have an allocation and if it would<br />
not result in violating <strong>the</strong> 20% cap;<br />
• Qualifying / Baseline years of 1996-2006??<br />
• If NMFS or <strong>the</strong> NEFMC regulatory bureaucracy prevents timely implementation,<br />
existing sectors will be allowed to fish under <strong>the</strong> previous year's operations plan<br />
and allocations.<br />
• “Future catch histories associated with <strong>the</strong> sector are proposed to remain constant<br />
regardless of whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> vessels land <strong>the</strong> fish; and<br />
• sectors will be credited with <strong>the</strong>ir actual TAC percentage, instead of actual<br />
percentage of TAC achieved<br />
• “<strong>Sectors</strong> will be credited with <strong>the</strong> maximum TAC amount (up to 20%), ra<strong>the</strong>r than<br />
<strong>the</strong> actual amount of fish caught.<br />
• Increasing observer coverage,<br />
• Moving into electronic catch reporting<br />
• Will comply w/ <strong>the</strong> requirement <strong>for</strong> 20 day spawning block out of <strong>the</strong> fishery<br />
between March and May and any spawning closures<br />
• Not limited to fishing in any areas<br />
Requested Exemptions<br />
• paper reporting;<br />
• DAS;<br />
• seasonal, rolling, habitat (anything less than level 3) and mortality closures;<br />
• minimum fish sizes<br />
• trip limits;<br />
• non-spawning blocks<br />
• hook number and size, gillnet number and mesh size, trawl mesh size and shape<br />
Necessary Policy Changes<br />
• qualifying baseline years;<br />
• trading quota between sectors;<br />
• future catch history remain constant regardless of actual catch;<br />
• Increasing observer coverage,<br />
• Moving into electronic catch reporting<br />
Members:<br />
List of 51 vessels (15 trawl, 4 hook, 1 scottish seine, 31 gillnet)<br />
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