December 2007 Commercial Fisheries News - The Northeast's Fishing Newspaper for over 34 years

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Shrimp: 152-day season,
no control date

PORTSMOUTH, NH – Following through on the “conditional commitment” it made to industry last year, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Northern Shrimp Section voted at a Nov. 14 meeting here to adopt a 152-day shrimp season from Dec. 1, 2007 through April 30, 2008 with no mandatory days off.

The fishery is one day longer than last season because February 2008 contains 29 days, making it a leap year.

The section, at the strong urging of industry, also made a “conditional commitment” to maintain a Dec. 1-April 30 season in 2009 – with the understanding that the fishery could be “constrained” by limiting the number of fishing days per week based on updated information from next summer’s stock assessment survey aboard the Gloria Michelle.

And finally, the section considered a request from industry advisers to establish a control date that could possibly lead to limiting the number of vessels in the fishery in future. ...continued

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