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DZ · 01-15-2015, 11:07 AM

Some clarifying info from DEM:
"The meeting with the commissioners will be to discuss and provide comments on material the Board will be discussing at the ASMFC Winter meeting. The Striped Bass Board will be meeting on 2/5/15 and the Board will be discussing conservation equivalency proposals and Addendum IV implementation plans. All of the conservation equivalency proposals are included in the state implementation plans. Those should all be available in the Boards materials prior to the meeting on 1/29 so yes the proposals should be available for you to review and provide comment on at the 1/29 meeting.

If interested in making any new proposals regarding 2015 striped bass management, the public workshop/public hearing in February would be the best time to do that. I believe the notice for that will be going out by tomorrow. Along with that notice will be annotated regulations for the potential options as proposed thus far. Those options will include the conservation equivalency options so you will be able them as soon as that notice goes out as well. In short there is one proposal for the fish traps to take a small quota reduction in order to maintain their reduced minimum size of 26” and there is another proposal for the recreational fishery to go to 1 fish @ 28” with the party/charter vessels going to 2 fish @ 32”. There will also be a RIMFC meeting subsequent to the public hearing where you could provide comments as well regarding 2015 striped bass management."

01-15-2015, 11:07 AM	#4
DZ Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,574	Some clarifying info from DEM: "The meeting with the commissioners will be to discuss and provide comments on material the Board will be discussing at the ASMFC Winter meeting. The Striped Bass Board will be meeting on 2/5/15 and the Board will be discussing conservation equivalency proposals and Addendum IV implementation plans. All of the conservation equivalency proposals are included in the state implementation plans. Those should all be available in the Boards materials prior to the meeting on 1/29 so yes the proposals should be available for you to review and provide comment on at the 1/29 meeting. If interested in making any new proposals regarding 2015 striped bass management, the public workshop/public hearing in February would be the best time to do that. I believe the notice for that will be going out by tomorrow. Along with that notice will be annotated regulations for the potential options as proposed thus far. Those options will include the conservation equivalency options so you will be able them as soon as that notice goes out as well. In short there is one proposal for the fish traps to take a small quota reduction in order to maintain their reduced minimum size of 26” and there is another proposal for the recreational fishery to go to 1 fish @ 28” with the party/charter vessels going to 2 fish @ 32”. There will also be a RIMFC meeting subsequent to the public hearing where you could provide comments as well regarding 2015 striped bass management."
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