The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel will hold a public meeting jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT. The purpose of this meeting is to review the Monitoring Committee’s recommendations for 2023 recreational management for all three species and to provide Advisory Panel input on 2023 recreational management measures.

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Meeting Materials

• Agenda

• Summary of October 26, 2022 Monitoring Committee meeting (Note that a summary of the Monitoring Committee’s November 15 meeting is not yet available. However, the MC’s recommendations are summarized in the staff presentations linked below.)

• Staff presentation on Percent Change Approach and Recreational Fishery Models

• Council staff memo on scup recreational management measures for 2023

• Staff presentation on scup measures

• Council staff memo on black sea bass recreational management measures for 2023

• Staff presentation on black sea bass measures

• Council staff memo on summer flounder recreational management measures for 2023

• Staff presentation on summer flounder measures