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Originally Posted by bobber
I've been loosely following this for a few weeks- the public input had 200,000 letters in favor of an environment-based approach. and still the #^&#^&#^&#^&ing cowards on ASMFC felt that 1 company deserved a increased harvest. they now have 78% of the entire coast harvest for themselves....
defies explanation (except if you count greed and corruption)
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Allocation decisions/discussions are (and should be) different than TAC decisions/discussions. They did adopt an ecosystem approach, they just didn't adopt the Lenfest, one size fits all, approach. Now the staff will continue to develop menhaden specific erps.
Remember, this is one fish where the spawning stock biomass has nothing to do with the success of any given year's spawn.