Annual Catch Limits
The 2007 amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act required fishery management plans to establish mechanisms for specifying annual catch limits at such levels that overfishing does not occur.
Additionally, the act calls for measures to ensure accountability with these limits, and that the limits do not exceed the scientific recommendations made by the regional fishery management councils’ scientific committees. More info: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/catchlimits.htm; ACL Q&A: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/docs/qanda_072809.pdf
- Final ACL Amendment documents: Crab final analysis (SOC review) 7/11, Final rule 8/5/11; Scallop EA, Final rule; Groundfish final analysis 9/10, Final rule Effective 11/5/10
- ACL Council motion 4//10
- ACL Action Plan for Amendments to the groundfish FMPs 12/14/09
- Workshop on Annual Catch Limits, May 21-22, 2009, 9 am, Traynor Room AFSC, Seattle. AGENDA
Working Documents
- A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Setting Buffers Between Fishery Management Targets and Limits (revised)
- Definition of Risk Aversion
- A general method to adjust catch limits/targets with survey uncertainty
- Addressing scientific uncertainty when making fishing level recommendations to avoid overfishing
- Probabilistic approaches to setting catch levels
- Use of productivity and susceptibility indices to determine the vulnerability of a stock: with example applications to six U.S. fisheries.
- www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/vulnerability.htm
FMP Action Plans
- Draft Action Plan for Annual Catch Limit Amendments to the Groundfish FMPs of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska
- ACL Actions for Crab FMP
- ACL Actions for Scallop FMP
- ABC Overages from 2006-2008
POWERPOINTS:
- ACL Powerpoint Stram/DiCosimo
- ACL Powerpoint Jernigan
- Determining the Vulnerability of stocks Powerpoint (Spencer)
- Other Species Powerpoint (Ormseth)
- Control Rules and Uncertainty Powerpoint (Methot)
- Revisions to the NS1 Guidelines Powerpoint
- What do we need for simple P* PPT (Hanselman)
- Using Survey Uncertainty to set ACLs PPT (Hanselman)
- Probability based catch levels PPT (Shertzer)
- Decision Theoretic Approach PPT (Thompson)
- ACL PPT (Thompson)
- Scallop ACL Compliance Issues PPT(Stram)