CCANY News - Flounder Amendment 1 guide



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June 30, 2004

An Anglers Guide to Amendment 1 to the Winter Flounder Fishery Management Plan
Prepared by the Coastal Conservation Association

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Attend your states public hearing (see page 11 of report) and support the positions noted below. Write a letter, fax or e-mail to your ASMFC representatives stating that you support CCA’s position on Amendment 1 to the Winter Flounder Fishery Management Plan. You can find the addresses for your state representatives beginning on pages 9-10. You can also attend a public hearing in your state – the list of is on page 8.

Here is what they are hoping to accomplish with this Amendment:

1. What is the management unit?
CCA Supports the present designation of 3 management units, recognizing the lack of data to support management in smaller areas. However, CCA urges that the States support additional work to identify and quantify smaller, localized “stocklets” to better account for localized depletion.

2. Define overfished and overfishing (i.e.: not enough fish in the spawning stock and catching too many fish).
CCA supports using mortality and spawning stock biomass control rules, specifically those preferred by the Winter Flounder Technical Committee.

3. If the stock is overfished, how long do we take to rebuild it?
CCA supports aggressive actions, rebuilding stocks in the minimum time feasible.

4. Recreational and Commercial fishing management measures.
CCA supports stock-area specific management measures, but urge them to be applied to the Gulf of Maine as well as Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic stock and ask for similar conservation management in the EEZ where the stocks mix together.

These points, and the important options in Amendment 1, are fully explained in the body of the Anglers Guide which you can download by clicking here.

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