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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages : 146
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"NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has prepared a Secretarial Amendment, under the authority of Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) section 304(c)1)(A), for the small-mesh multispecies component of the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The Secretarial Amendment is intended to establish a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) for silver hake, red hake, and offshore hake, collectively known as 'small-mesh multispecies.' There are two stocks each of silver and red hake (northern and southern), and one stock of offshore hake. Offshore hake are primarily caught incidentally in the southern silver hake fishery and they are marketed together as 'whiting.' The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is responsible for managing the small-mesh multispecies fishery through the Northeast Multispecies FMP and initiated the development of an amendment in 2009 (Amendment 19) to that management plan to implement ACLs and AMs for the small-mesh multispecies. However, development of Amendment 19 was delayed in order to incorporate the results from a stock assessment of all three species that occurred in November 2010 (Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) 51.) The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires the establishment of the ACL and AM framework by 2011. NMFS is developing this action to meet that deadline and bring the small-mesh multispecies fishery into compliance with the Magnuson-Stevens Act. While the Secretarial Amendment does not have an expiration date, and would be in effect until Amendment 19, if approved, replaces it, NMFS intends for this amendment to act as a bridge for the small-mesh multispecies fishery and does not address the full suite of measures that the Council is developing for Amendment 19. In order to minimize confusion and ease the transition between the two amendments, NMFS chose as the preferred alternatives the most general and flexible from the Council's preliminary list of alternatives for Amendment 19. The Secretarial Amendment also proposes the same ACL framework mechanism that the Council is analyzing for Amendment 19, which is based on recommendations from the Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (SCC)"--Executive summary (page i).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages : 146
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"NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has prepared a Secretarial Amendment, under the authority of Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) section 304(c)1)(A), for the small-mesh multispecies component of the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The Secretarial Amendment is intended to establish a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) for silver hake, red hake, and offshore hake, collectively known as 'small-mesh multispecies.' There are two stocks each of silver and red hake (northern and southern), and one stock of offshore hake. Offshore hake are primarily caught incidentally in the southern silver hake fishery and they are marketed together as 'whiting.' The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is responsible for managing the small-mesh multispecies fishery through the Northeast Multispecies FMP and initiated the development of an amendment in 2009 (Amendment 19) to that management plan to implement ACLs and AMs for the small-mesh multispecies. However, development of Amendment 19 was delayed in order to incorporate the results from a stock assessment of all three species that occurred in November 2010 (Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) 51.) The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires the establishment of the ACL and AM framework by 2011. NMFS is developing this action to meet that deadline and bring the small-mesh multispecies fishery into compliance with the Magnuson-Stevens Act. While the Secretarial Amendment does not have an expiration date, and would be in effect until Amendment 19, if approved, replaces it, NMFS intends for this amendment to act as a bridge for the small-mesh multispecies fishery and does not address the full suite of measures that the Council is developing for Amendment 19. In order to minimize confusion and ease the transition between the two amendments, NMFS chose as the preferred alternatives the most general and flexible from the Council's preliminary list of alternatives for Amendment 19. The Secretarial Amendment also proposes the same ACL framework mechanism that the Council is analyzing for Amendment 19, which is based on recommendations from the Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (SCC)"--Executive summary (page i).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages :
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"This document serves as Draft Amendment 19 to the Northeast Multispecies FMP, the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) which updates and supplements the original EIS for the small-mesh multispecies fishery (available at http://www.nefmc.org/nemulti/planamen/GFAmend12.pdf) contained in Amendment 12 (NEFMC 2000). The purpose of the amendment is to establish and implement Annual Catch Limits (ACLs) and Accountability Measures (AMs) to bring management of the small-mesh fishery into compliance with the re-authorized Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, using the best available science developed during and derived from the recent benchmark assessment (NEFSC 2011a). Amendment 19 (this amendment) includes and augments the measures in the Secretarial Amendment, which NMFS has developed at the same time as and in parallel with this amendment. The Secretarial Amendment followed a different approval process and contained many, but not all, of the alternatives included in this document"--Executive summary (page 1-1).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Coral fisheries Languages : en Pages : 406
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"The 2011 Caribbean ACL Amendment to the Fishery Management Plans (FMPs) for the Reef Fish, Spiny Lobster, Queen Conch resources and Corals and Reef Associated Plants and Invertebrates in the U.S. Caribbean is intended to bring those fisheries into compliance with the 2007 revisions to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Actions analyzed in this Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) include alternatives to: 1) revise management reference points and overfished and overfishing status determination criteria; 2) implement annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) to prevent overfishing pursuant to MSA National Standard 1 Guidelines; 3) revise management measures for aquarium trade species and conch species within the Reef Fish, Corals and Reef and Associated Plants and Invertebrates and Queen Conch FMPs; 4) establish recreational bag limits for reef fish and spiny lobster species; 5) establish exclusive economic zone sub-boundaries for purposes of applying accountability measures (AMs); and 6) establish framework procedures to facilitate future modifications to National Standard 1 harvest parameters and management measures if needed"--Executive summary (page 21).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages :
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"The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) requires NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Gulf Council to prevent overfishing, and achieve, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from federally managed fish stocks. Red grouper are not undergoing overfishing and are not considered overfished. Gag is undergoing overfishing and is considered overfished. This action incorporates both red grouper and gag management measures as actions affecting one species invariably affect the other. Amendment 32 would consider: Rebuilding plans for the gag stock; establishing or modifying recreational bag limits, size limits, and closed seasons for gag and red grouper; applying commercial gag quota adjustments to account for dead discards; adjusting multi-use individual fishing quota shares (allocation); changing the commercial gag size limit; establishing time and area closures; and modifying current gag, red grouper, and shallow-water grouper accountability measures"--Executive Summary (page v).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Coral fisheries Languages : en Pages :
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"The purpose of this Comprehensive ACL Amendment for the South Atlantic Region (Comprehensive ACL Amendment) is to implement measures expected to prevent overfishing and achieve OY while minimizing, to the extent practicable, adverse social and economic effects. Long-term measures include implementation of the following items: 1) changes to the snapper grouper fishery management unit, including the removal of some species, designation of ecosystem component species, and the development of species groups; 2) establish acceptable biological catch (ABC) control rules; 3) ACLs and annual catch targets (ACTs); 4) jurisdictional and sector allocations; 5) accountability measures (AMs); and 6) management measures necessary to ensure mortality is at or below the annual limits and targets. Optimum yield, the ultimate goal of any fishery management plan, is the portion of the fish stock that provides the greatest economic, social, and ecological benefit to the nation"--Abstract (page IV).
Author: The Law Library Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781793104274 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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The Law Library presents the complete text of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States - Northeast Multispecies Fishery (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regulation) (NOAA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This action approves and implements Framework Adjustment 57 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, as recommended by the New England Fishery Management Council. This rule sets 2018-2020 catch limits for 20 multispecies (groundfish) stocks, adjusts allocations for several fisheries, revises accountability measures, and makes other minor changes to groundfish management measures. This action is necessary to respond to updated scientific information and achieve the goals and objectives of the fishery management plan. The final measures are intended to prevent overfishing, rebuild overfished stocks, achieve optimum yield, and ensure that management measures are based on the best scientific information available. This ebook contains: - The complete text of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States - Northeast Multispecies Fishery (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regulation) (NOAA) (2018 Edition) - A dynamic table of content linking to each section - A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Atlantic mackerel Languages : en Pages : 292
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"This action implements measures to bring all Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council FMPs into compliance with requirements of the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act by implementing annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) and other related measures"--Cover letter; Portfolio comprised of three related PDF documents digitized and organized by: NOAA Office of Program Planning and Integration (PPI) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) staff.
Author: William D. Whitmore Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages : 54
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"The Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) finds that emergency action, under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), is necessary to revise the fishing year (FY) 2014 catch limits for Gulf of Maine (GOM) haddock, managed by the Northeast (NE) Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The principal goal of this emergency action is to respond to the best available science to prevent foregone economic yield or substantial community impacts and potentially preserving an economic opportunity that otherwise would not be available without this action. The recent benchmark stock assessment by the Stock Assessment Review Committee (SARC 59, August 2014) indicates that the GOM haddock stock status should be changed to reflect that it is not overfished and overfishing is not occurring. Therefore, the FMP should be revised in order to incorporate and respond to such information. This supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes the environmental impacts of an emergency action, which compares alternatives, as required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to quickly respond to this recent scientific information until such time that the New England Fishery Management Council (Council) can incorporate the new information into the FMP. Specifically, this emergency action would implement the following actions for GOM haddock, described in more detail below: (1) Revise the GOM haddock stock status determination criteria; (2) revise the GOM haddock Overfishing Level (OFL), Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) and Annual Catch Limits (ACLs); and (3) specify the GOM haddock sub-ACLs for the commercial and recreational fisheries. On May 1, 2014, the final rule implementing Framework Adjustment (FW) 51 to the FMP (79 FR 22421; April 22, 2014) implemented an overfishing limit of 440 mt for GOM haddock, with an allowable biological catch of 341 mt (Table 1). The FY 2014 catch limits for GOM haddock were substantial reductions of catch levels from prior years, and this action would provide relief from those restrictive ACLs that could enhance fishermen’s opportunity to harvest optimum yield. Emergency action to revise the GOM haddock catch limits based on the stock assessment results provides timely incorporation of scientific information and enables the fishery to remain open longer. Immediate regulatory action mitigates potential disruptions in the fishing industry and foregone economic yield as fishermen would otherwise likely have to substantially modify or cease fishing operations. This increased operational flexibility will also help fishermen adjust to additional interim measures that increase GOM cod protections, such as seasonal closed areas. The supplemental EA analyzes potential impacts from increasing the GOM haddock OFL, ABC, and ACLs"--Executive summary (page 1).
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental impact analysis Languages : en Pages : 261
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"Amendment 5 will implement annual catch limits and accountability measures for the monkfish fishery to bring the FMP into compliance with the 2007 reauthorization orlhe Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with the intent of preventing overfishing from occurring. This action also implements updated biological and management reference points for the monkfish fishery to be consistent with National Standard I guidelines and the most recent scientific advice on the fishery. Finally, this action implements three management measures to promote efficiency and reduce waste in the fishery. In nearly all cases, this action is expected to have a neutral or positive impact on the human environment. The only exceptions are some potentially negative impacts on non-target species, protected species, and habitat resulting from the increased days-at-sea allocations and trip limits resulting from the increased catch targets. These adverse impacts, however, are not likely to be substantial. Thus, there are no significant social or economic impacts, nor are there any significant natural or physical environmental effects expected to result from this action."--Cover letter; Portfolio comprised of the report and related ammendments and appendices, digitized and organized by: NOAA Office of Program Planning and Integration (PPI) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) staff; Portfolio accompanied by: PPI NEPA cover letter for Environmental Assessment (EA), Responsible Program Manager: Patricia Kurkul, Regional Administrator, Northeast Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Apr. 28, 2011.
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