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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 33 Number 12
August 2005
Allocation policy statement
The following is the new conservation and management policy adopted by the New England Fishery Management Council on June 21 in Portland, ME. The policy will be used to guide the council’s future decision-making.
“The New England Fishery Management Council recognizes that allocation is an integral part of its management responsibilities and that measures that have allocative effects should be open and transparent.
“The council will develop conservation measures and controls that have a high level of certainty that insures they will prevent overfishing, end overfishing, and rebuild stocks.
“The council also recognizes that we manage fishermen, not fish, and that allocation measures and controls must have a high level of certainty that insures our conservation requirements are met in a fair and equitable manner.
“As stewards of New England’s valuable fishery resources, we will be judged by both the biological health of our fisheries and by how fair and equitable we are in our allocation decisions.”
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