Agenda Set for Rescheduled Marine Fisheries Commission Meeting
MOREHEAD CITY – A revised agenda has been set for next week’s N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Raleigh.
The agenda includes the same topics for discussion that were scheduled for this week’s meeting, but the order of some of the presentations has changed. This week’s meeting was postponed due to the state of emergency and the impacts of Hurricane Irene on commission members and the general public.
The updated agenda, briefing book and scheduled presentations can be found on the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries website at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/august-2011-mfc-briefing-book.
Agenda items include a review of public input received about allowing an Atlantic Ocean striped bass commercial hook-and-line fishery. The commission is also slated to decide how it wants to manage the ocean striped bass fishery for the upcoming season.
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries held five meetings in different regions of the coast and in Raleigh to receive public comment on this idea. The commission directed the division to examine a commercial hook-and-line fishery for ocean-caught striped bass to help avoid waste after reviewing incidents of dead discards of striped bass in the ocean trawl fishery this winter.
Also scheduled is a review of management options for ending overfishing within two years of adoption of the Spotted Seatrout Fishery Management Plan. The commission will be asked to vote to send these options out for public input.
A new law passed last year requires all fishery management plans to end overfishing within two years of final adoption. A draft Spotted Seatrout Fishery Management Plan that was developed prior to passage of the law and tentatively approved in November, does not meet this criteria.
Additionally, the commission will discuss when to open the large-mesh gill net fisheries in the Pamlico Sound Gill Net Restricted area and in southern Core Sound, North River and Back Sound.
The meeting begins with a public comment session at 6 p.m. Sept. 7. Anyone who wishes to speak to the commission on a fisheries-related matter may do so then or at 9:15 a.m. Sept. 8. Due to time constraints, the commission chairman asks individuals to speak only once, either on Sept. 7 or on Sept. 8, but not during both public comment periods.
The business sessions of the meeting begins at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 and 8:30 a.m. Sept. 9.
Agenda Set for Rescheduled Marine Fisheries Commission Meeting
MOREHEAD CITY – A revised agenda has been set for next week’s N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Raleigh.
The agenda includes the same topics for discussion that were scheduled for this week’s meeting, but the order of some of the presentations has changed. This week’s meeting was postponed due to the state of emergency and the impacts of Hurricane Irene on commission members and the general public.
The updated agenda, briefing book and scheduled presentations can be found on the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries website at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/august-2011-mfc-briefing-book.
Agenda items include a review of public input received about allowing an Atlantic Ocean striped bass commercial hook-and-line fishery. The commission is also slated to decide how it wants to manage the ocean striped bass fishery for the upcoming season.
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries held five meetings in different regions of the coast and in Raleigh to receive public comment on this idea. The commission directed the division to examine a commercial hook-and-line fishery for ocean-caught striped bass to help avoid waste after reviewing incidents of dead discards of striped bass in the ocean trawl fishery this winter.
Also scheduled is a review of management options for ending overfishing within two years of adoption of the Spotted Seatrout Fishery Management Plan. The commission will be asked to vote to send these options out for public input.
A new law passed last year requires all fishery management plans to end overfishing within two years of final adoption. A draft Spotted Seatrout Fishery Management Plan that was developed prior to passage of the law and tentatively approved in November, does not meet this criteria.
Additionally, the commission will discuss when to open the large-mesh gill net fisheries in the Pamlico Sound Gill Net Restricted area and in southern Core Sound, North River and Back Sound.
The meeting begins with a public comment session at 6 p.m. Sept. 7. Anyone who wishes to speak to the commission on a fisheries-related matter may do so then or at 9:15 a.m. Sept. 8. Due to time constraints, the commission chairman asks individuals to speak only once, either on Sept. 7 or on Sept. 8, but not during both public comment periods.
The business sessions of the meeting begins at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 and 8:30 a.m. Sept. 9.