. Development and evolution of the sea herring fishery management plan. Herring; Fisheries; Fishery management; Fishing. TIUPMONC: Mot ⢠111 UTI ⢠TATS Or MAIN! DEPARTMENT DF MARINE RESOURCE MARIN C KCCOURCEI UIQRATORY wear ioothiay ham eon. mainc 04473. â¢iJrr- â J"- December 31, 1980 Allen E. Peterson, Jr. Regional Director National Marine Fisheries Service Federal Building 14 Elm Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 Dear Allen: Your decision to recommend the closure of the winter-spring herring fishery amply expresses your concern over the substantial catch of 3+ herring in the sum
. Development and evolution of the sea herring fishery management plan. Herring; Fisheries; Fishery management; Fishing. TIUPMONC: Mot ⢠111 UTI ⢠TATS Or MAIN! DEPARTMENT DF MARINE RESOURCE MARIN C KCCOURCEI UIQRATORY wear ioothiay ham eon. mainc 04473. â¢iJrr- â J"- December 31, 1980 Allen E. Peterson, Jr. Regional Director National Marine Fisheries Service Federal Building 14 Elm Street Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 Dear Allen: Your decision to recommend the closure of the winter-spring herring fishery amply expresses your concern over the substantial catch of 3+ herring in the summer-fall period. Since approximately 60% of the catch of 3+ herring occurred in Maine waters, we must obviously consider this problem while developing our herring plan for 1981. I want to assure you that the state of Maine has no desire to contribute to the collapse of the stocks. We have too much at stake in the resource. I have stated in Council session the situation we face in the Maine herring fishery. I will briefly review this for you. We have had a herring management plan in place for three years that establishes a quota on the mobile gear catch. The Council recommended that 10,470 MT of age 3+ herring be taken north of Cape Elizabeth during a 12 month period. They have further stated that for the summer-fall period, which is when our fishery occurs, age 3+ can be equated with 9" and larger. Maine's mobile gear quota for the calendar year was therefore set at 8,000 MT of 9" and larger. The remaining 2,470 MT were set aside to cover the catch of 3+ herring in the fixed gear, a level we felt was consistent with the long term average. In preparing this plan we attempted to conform as much as possible to the stated objectives and allowable catch levels of the Council plan and, indeed, until just recently we had received no adverse comment from the Council or NMFS on our management. This year was an unusual one in that an extremely strong year class of three
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