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Build trust among user groups/form partnership
Create a vision for the future
Create a new way of decision making
Bring groups together and create a consensus strategy for long-term management
In what areas of this information do you lack confidence?
Catch monitoring
MRFSS survey needs to be revamped/improved for better recreational statistics.
Unsure about accuracy of commercial statistics.
Catch monitoring for equitable geographic distribution of harvest within the Bay.
Interpretation of statistics.
ASMFC process - require relevancy and criteria.
Ultimate safe level of harvest and appropriate conservation level.
By-catch estimates.
Long term trend of stocks.
Adequacy of enforcement.
Use of dedicated funds (i.e. Striped Bass Stamp)
Effect of increasing stocks on other Bay fisheries.
Potential effect of influx of more fishermen as other fish stocks decline and striped bass increase.