The MAFMC’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Monitoring Committee, with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Technical Committee, will hold a workshop October 27 - 28, 2015 to review methods, datasets, and considerations for recommending and evaluating recreational management measures for these three species.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, October 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott Baltimore BWI Airport, 1671 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, Maryland, 21090; telephone: (410)-859-8855.

The workshop will focus on specific technical methods for calculating adjustments to bag limits, size limits, and seasonal limits, as well as current and potential supporting recreational datasets, tools, and models. The objective of the meeting is for the Committees to identify potential improvements to the current processes and methods for recommending and evaluating recreational measures. 

Meeting Materials

• Final workshop agenda
• John Ward's MRIP Model for Recreational Measures, final report, June 2015
  • Prior TC/MC comments and summaries on Ward model
• Wiedenmann et al. Fluke MSE final report
  • Sept. 2013 presentation to TC on fluke MSE

Supplemental Materials

• APAIS Sample Weighting Presentation (Oct. 2013) 
• 2014 Recreational measures Council staff memos
• MRIP Data User Handbook

This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.  Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should be directed to M. Jan Saunders, (302) 526-5251, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.