If your interested in your rights to shark fish in the future there's a meeting at the Portsmouth N.H. Public library Sept 17, 175 Parrot Ave. from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Will try to add hyperlink to this post, B

Amendment 2 to the Consolidated Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan Actions: Implement management measures consistent with recent stock assessments for sandbar, porbeagle, dusky, blacktip, and Large Coastal Sharks (LCS); initiate rebuilding plans for porbeagle, dusky, and sandbar sharks; implement commercial quotas and retention limits consistent with stock assessment recommendations to prevent overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks; modify recreational measures to reduce fishing mortality of overfished/overfishing stocks; modify reporting requirements; modify timing of shark stock assessments; clarify timing of release for annual Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) reports; update dehooking requirements for smalltooth sawfish; collect shark life history information through the implementation of a shark research program; and, consider additional time/area closures proposed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/sharks/Amendment%202/Executive%20Summary.pdf

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