Guppy
03-25-2017, 05:02 AM
Opening River Herring Spawning Runs (322 CMR 6.17)
New regulations were enacted that create standards for opening spawning runs to the harvest of river herring. For a spawning run to be opened, the run must have a Sustainable Management Plan that DMF has submitted to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Such a plan requires a minimum of 10-years of demographic data and biological targets such as spawning stock biomass, fish passage counts, mortality rates, repeat spawning rations and juvenile abundances. At this time only the Nemasket Run in Middleborough and Lakeville has met the criteria for an ASMFC-approved plan. DMF will announce the future opening of spawning runs, but none will be opened in 2017
New regulations were enacted that create standards for opening spawning runs to the harvest of river herring. For a spawning run to be opened, the run must have a Sustainable Management Plan that DMF has submitted to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Such a plan requires a minimum of 10-years of demographic data and biological targets such as spawning stock biomass, fish passage counts, mortality rates, repeat spawning rations and juvenile abundances. At this time only the Nemasket Run in Middleborough and Lakeville has met the criteria for an ASMFC-approved plan. DMF will announce the future opening of spawning runs, but none will be opened in 2017