May 6, 2016 — The Council Report summarizes major actions approved at NEFMC meetings or highlights items of interest.
At its April 19-21 meeting in Mystic CT, the Council approved actions related to the development of its fishery management plans. The issues involved:
- Development of a Deep Sea Coral Amendment
- Atlantic Herring Amendment 8
- The Industry-Funded Monitoring Amendment
- Sea Scallops and the NGOM Area
- EBFM
- Spiny Dogfish
- At-Sea Monitoring
- Small Mesh Multispecies