The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (MAFMC) Bluefish Monitoring Committee (MC) will meet jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Bluefish Technical Committee (TC) via webinar on Friday, March 24, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to develop potential methods for applying a buffer between sector specific annual catch limits (ACLs) and annual catch targets (ACTs) to account for management uncertainty. At the meeting, the MC and TC will review buffer examples in other fisheries, review recent bluefish overages by sector, and discuss methods for buffer calculation. The MC and TC will also discuss bluefish specifications updates and next steps as appropriate.
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