April 2021 Council Meeting

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council met by webinar Tuesday, April 6 - Thursday, April 8, 2021.

• Meeting Motions

• Press Release: MAFMC and ASMFC Postpone Final Action on Potential Changes to Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Allocations

• Meeting Recordings

• Meeting Report

Agenda and Briefing Materials

• Detailed Agenda

• Combined Briefing Book

Stock Status

• MAFMC Stock Status

• Stock Size and Fishing Mortality Ratios

Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) Updates (Including Summer Flounder MSE Update)

• Briefing Materials (Tab 1)

• Presentation

• Recording

Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Commercial/Recreational Allocation Amendment - Final Action (Joint with ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board)

• Briefing Materials (Tab 2)

• Supplemental:

  • Alternatives Quick Reference Guide

  • Advisory Panel meeting summary from March 23, 2021 plus additional written AP comments received in connection with this meeting

  • FMAT meeting summary from March 24, 2021

  • ASMFC Draft Amendment Document

  • Additional comments received after March 24

  • Additional comment received by mail

• Presentation

• Recording

Blueline Tilefish 2022-2024 Specifications

• Briefing Materials (Tab 3)

• Presentation

• Recording

Golden Tilefish Multi-Year Specifications Framework – Meeting 1

• Briefing Materials (Tab 4)

• Presentation

• Recording

Listening Session on President Biden's Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad

Mr. Paul Doremus (NOAA Fisheries Acting Assistant Administrator)

• Briefing Materials (Tab 5)

• Supplemental: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad

• Presentation

• Recording

2021 Mid-Atlantic State of the Ecosystem Report and EAFM Risk Assessment

Dr. Sarah Gaichas, NEFSC

• Briefing Materials (Tab 6)

• Presentation

  Recording

East Coast Climate Change Scenario Planning Initiative

• Briefing Materials (Tab 7)

• Presentation

• Recording

Presentation on Climate Change Science Efforts Underway at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Dr. Vincent Saba (NEFSC)

• Supplemental: Northeast Climate-Fisheries Seminar Series

• Presentation

• Recording

Business Session

• Briefing Materials:

  • Committee Reports (Tab 8) - SSC, Research Steering Committee

  • Executive Director's Report (Tab 9)

    • Supplemental: NTAP Proposed Use of Available Research Funds – 2021; Supplemental Comment - US Wind

  • NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional Office

  • US Coast Guard Report

  • Liaison Reports (Tab 10)

• Recording

This meeting will be recorded. Consistent with 16 USC 1852, a copy of the recording is available upon request.