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Originally Posted by bobber
if that's the case, it may not be a bad thing.... ASMFC is accountable to no one, even their own technical committee advice. NMFS has more legal constraints that compels them to act when fishery numbers go down
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Its a very bad thing. Summer flounder, scup and sea bass are jointly managed by the ASMFC and MAFMC, so anything that's approved already has to meet federal requirements. This is just precedent for the NMFS second guessing the ASMFC as to what actions constitute "conservational equivalency."