The Council’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel will hold a webinar meeting, jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to review recent operational stock assessment information for scup and black sea bass, and to review the recommendations of the Scientific and Statistical Committee and Monitoring Committee for 2020-2021 specifications for all three species. The advisory panel will also review an analysis of commercial scup discards, and will be asked for input on commercial minimum mesh size requirements.

Webinar Connection

• Webinar: http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/fsb-ap-sept-2019/

• Audio: 1-800-832-0736, room number 4472108

Meeting Materials

• Draft Agenda

• SSC and Monitoring Committee Reports

  • September SSC Report

  • Draft Monitoring Committee Catch and Landings Limit Recommendation Tables

• Summer Flounder

  • Staff Memo: 2020 Summer Flounder Specifications Review

  • Summer Flounder 2019 Data Update

• Black Sea Bass

  • Staff Memo: 2020-2021 Black Sea Bass ABC recommendations, revised 9/4/19

  • Supplemental memo on black sea bass 2020-2021 specifications, added 9/11/19 with minor revisions 9/13/19

  • 2019 Operational Assessment and Peer Review Panel Report: Bluefish, Black Sea Bass, Scup, revised 9/4/19

• Scup

  • Staff Memo: 2020-2021 Scup Specifications

  • Commercial Fishery Scup Discard Report

  • 2019 Operational Assessment and Peer Review Panel Report: Bluefish, Black Sea Bass, Scup, revised 9/4/19

• Commercial Mesh Size Regulations

  • Mesh Size Issues Overview for Monitoring Committee

  • Supplemental: Collaborative Research Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Mesh Size Study Final Report