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Atlantic cobia management up for discussion

November 19, 2018 โ€” Plans are in motion to remove Atlantic cobia from management at the federal level, and turn over management of the fish in federal waters, from Georgia to New York, to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, a cooperative effort of East Coast states.

The ASMFC generally helps regulate the first three miles from shore โ€” that which is under state control โ€” and provides a framework so that recreational and commercial fishermen deal with relatively consistent state regulations along the East Coast, rather than a hodgepodge.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced the opening of a public comment period Nov. 9, thatโ€™s slated to run through Dec. 10. Presently, Atlantic cobia in the federal waters off Georgia are managed through the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, which also deals with other fisheries in federal waters in this region.

A period of public hearings nearly a year ago led to the conclusion, according to the SAFMCโ€™s summary, that removing โ€œAtlantic cobia from federal management as soon as possibleโ€ would be best for the fishery.

At the SAFMC meeting on Jekyll Island in March, the topic received a fair bit of discussion, with the plan to move management from the SAFMC to the ASMFC winning approval in committee by a vote of 6-5-1. The council ended up delaying a decision until its June meeting, in which it was approved for formal review.

According to the NMFS bulletin announcing the public comment period, โ€œmost existing management measures in federal waters for commercial and recreational harvest of Atlantic cobia from Georgia through New York would not change through this amendment.โ€

Read the full story at the The Brunswick News

Feds fight fish fraud with new recordkeeping rules

February 8, 2016 โ€” The National Marine Fisheries Service announced last week that it is implementing a new tracking program for seafood imports to help combat illegal fishing and seafood fraud.

Importers will have to track where fish were caught, the type of gear used and where it was landed.

Director of the Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspections John Henderschedt said the federal government wants a better record of who is catching seafood and where itโ€™s landed before it shows up in U.S. stores.

โ€œWe do not have laws that allow us to gather the data to ensure that we can carefully examine the legality of catch and the chain of custody of that product as it makes its way to the U.S.,โ€ Henderschedt said.

The proposed program applies to about 13 different types of fish, including Pacific cod, red king crab, shrimp, sea cucumber and others. Eventually, Henderschedt said it could be expanded to more species.

Henderschedt said NMFS already has that information for domestic seafood, so fishermen and processors here wonโ€™t be asked to do anything differently. For now, consumers wonโ€™t have the new information about imported seafood.

Read the full story at Alaska Public Media

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