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The Great Cod Compromise of 2015: NOAA, fishing industry find rare common ground on cod actions
The industry stakeholders and NOAA/NMFS
arrived at a compromise: NOAA would eliminate the trip bycatch limit and leave the broad stock areas open, but it only would be able to accept up to 30 metric tons of the surrendered cod allocation and the rolling closures scheduled for March would stay in effect.”We felt like what we came up with addresses two of the major complaints by the fishing industry,” Bullard said. “We think there is a conservation benefit to that and it’s a good proposal.” Read the rest here 15:57
N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has chosen a compromise on a controversial shrimp trawl amendment.
In a split vote, the commission chose an amended management option as one of its preferred options for the shrimp fishery management plan Amendment 1 on Friday at its Feb. 19-21 meeting at the Crystal Coast Civic Center. Read more here 09:34
