Squid Workshop SummaryJason DiddenJason Didden

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management CouncilCouncil

Katie LatanichKatie LatanichFisheries Leadership & Sustainability Fisheries Leadership & Sustainability

ForumForum

"Responsive Management"

Management strategies for responding to the widely variable seasonal and year to year fluctuations in squid abundance.

"Responsive Management"

Management-based solutions that improve the industry’s ability to utilize an existing quota

Identifying generally high abundance periods - "signposts"

"Cohort-based" & "real-time" strategies

Potential Management Changes

Effort/Capacity issues

Longfin trimesters & roll-overs

Trip notification (longfin) timing Longfin notification triggers (pounds)

Potential Management Changes

Effort/Capacity issues Amendment

Longfin trimesters & roll-overs

Trip notification (longfin) timing Longfin notification triggers (pounds)

Potential Management Changes

Effort/Capacity issues

Longfin trimesters & roll-overs

Trip notification (longfin) timing Specs/

Longfin notification triggers (lbs) FW

Potential Management Changes

GRAs

Scup, Lobster, Tilefish,

– Deep Water Corals (??)

(Frameworkable – Other Plans)

Potential Management Changes

Identify short-term steps to improve data availability in support of medium and long-term outcomes.

– Staff white paper to extend workshop summary and keep momentum on issues

Vehicles for Changes Federal Register Notice Specifications Frameworks Amendments

Vehicles for Changes Some measures designated for certain

actions Depends on how many measures at once Depends on level of controversy Council and NMFS staff evaluate potential

actions and suggest appropriate vehicle

Vehicles Federal Register Notice

– Control dates (currently 2003)

Longfin & Illex: none, either, both

Vehicles Specifications

– Quotas– Trip limits– Seasonal quotas (rollover)– Gear restrictions– Accountability Measures– Any measures necessary to assure that

quotas will not be exceeded

Vehicles Frameworks

Adjusting current measures not typically adjusted during specifications

E.g. - Changing GRAs

Vehicles Amendments

– New measures

– Substantial impacts Allocations, Economic, Biological

– Collections of alterations that would cumulatively result in major change for fishery

Potential Next Steps AP Meeting Next Week

Port Meetings? (Cape May & Pt. Judith)

Specs process is spinning up….?

Control Date

Questions?Questions?