From the Herring Alliance:
An important New England Fishery Management Council meeting takes place on Tuesday (Sept 28, 11:30 a.m., Hotel Viking, Newport, RI), where the Council will be making decisions that could bring considerable improvement in the management of the Atlantic herring fishery. At this meeting, the Council will continue to discuss management measures to reduce river herring bycatch, measures to reduce bycatch of groundfish in groundfish closed areas, protection of spawning sea herring and improvements to the catch monitoring program.
The agenda and list of Herring Committee Documents are on the New England Fishery Management Council's website. Your attendance, comments and phone calls to Council members will be a tremendous boost as a great deal remains to be done to make this a fishery plan amendment stronger. Please read our brief Herring Alliance comment letter, which has a 70-page attachment, Bycatch Limits for American Shad and River Herrings in the Northwest Atlantic, a report by the U Md Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.
~ Greg Gerritt
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