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Originally Posted by MakoMike
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."
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more regulations/bureaucracy is never a good thing, but ASMFC has proven time after time that they are not good at managing species proactively- they sit on their hands and cater to the commercial interests/states until things require drastic changes to avoid catastrophe....