Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - Thursday, May 14, 2015
Meeting Materials
Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish (MSB)
General
- MSB Staff Memo: Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) Recommendations
- MSB Advisory Panel (AP) Fishery Performance Reports
Mackerel
- Mackerel Staff AP Fishery Information Document
- Mackerel NEFSC Biological Update
- Mackerel MSE (Wiedenmann)
- 2014 Canadian Assessment Update
- 2014 Canadian Assessment Regional Review
- TRAC Assessment Documents
- Evaluating methods for setting catch limits in data-limited fisheries, T.R. Carruthers et al. (2014)
- A biomass limit reference point for NAFO subareas 3 and 4 Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scrombus), D. Duplisea and F. Grégoire (2014)
- Age-Specific Indices Proportions
- Age-Specific Indices
Squids (longfin and Illex)
- Longfin Staff AP Fishery Information Document
- Illex Staff AP Fishery Information Document
- Squids NEFSC Biological Update
- Previous Squid Assessments
Butterfish
- Butterfish Staff AP Fishery Information Document
- Butterfish NEFSC Biological Update
- Previous Assessment
- Year-end Butterfish Catch and Mortality Cap Report for the 2014 Fishing Year
River Herring/Shad Cap
- Specifications EA Excerpt
- Cap Worksheet
- NEFSC River Herring and Shad Indices
- NEAMAP River Herring and Shad Indices
Surfclam and Ocean Quahog
- 2015 Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery Performance Report
- 2015 Surfclam Fishery Information Document
- 2015 Ocean Quahog Fishery Information Document
- Staff Memo: Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Specifications Review for 2016 Fishing Year
- Federal Register Notice: Suspension of Minimum Atlantic Surfclam Size Limit
- 2015 Surfclam/Ocean Quahog Quota Report
Blueline Tilefish
- Blueline Tilefish Subcommittee (MAFMC SSC)
- MAFMC Letter to John Bullard Regarding Blueline Tilefish (May 11, 2015)
- SSC Review of the Research Report “The Population Dynamics of Blueline and Golden Tilefish, Snowy and Warsaw Grouper and Wreckfish”
- The Population Dynamics of Blueline and Golden Tilefish, Snowy and Warsaw Grouper and Wreckfish, by Michael Schmidtke, Kathleen Kirch, and Cynthia M. Jones (February 2015)