January 26, 2015 — The New England Fishery Management Council cancelled Tuesday’s session of the upcoming meetings in Portsmouth, N.H., but still holds out hope it will be able to squeeze much of the three-day agenda into Wednesday afternoon and Thursday.
If that is the case, the final item could be the most contentious: Northeast Fisheries Science Center Director Bill Karp’s report on NOAA Fisheries’ stock assessment process and modeling program.
That subject, now listed as the final item on the council’s agenda, touches on the issue that has generated some of the greatest consternation among fishing stakeholders, especially since the unscheduled assessment last summer that led to the interim emergency actions that shut down cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine.
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