LANSING, MI (February 20, 2009) – Framework 42 to the Northeast Multispecies Fisheries Management Plan was enacted to remedy the overfishing of certain fish stocks by rebuilding them. Each regional fishery council (there are eight councils) is required to have a fisheries management plan or FMP, and these plans are updated through amendments and frameworks. One such framework implemented to counter depleted fishing stocks is the controversial Framework 42.
Framework 42 is seen as stricter because it counts each fisher’s “day at sea as two days” when the fishers already “have a limited number of days they are allowed at sea to fish.”
Read the commentary in full in The Conservation Report