The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) and the New
Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish and
Wildlife will host a public meeting regarding proposed modifications to
the ASMFC's Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan (FMP).
The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29, at the
Atlantic County Library, 306 Jimmie Leeds Road in Absecon, Galloway
Township. Similar meetings are scheduled for Connecticut, Delaware,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and
Virginia.
The modifications propose a program that allows the ASMFC to subdivide
the recreational coastwide allocation into regions as an option under
conservation equivalency. It also initiates a public dialog to discuss
the ability to average multiple years of data as well as multiple years
of landings to establish recreational management programs.
A complete copy of the proposals can be obtained via the ASMFC's Web
site at www.asmfc.org under Breaking News or by calling (202) 289-6400.
Written comments will be accepted until July 20, 2005 and should be
addressed to Toni Kerns, FMP Coordinator, 1444 Eye Street, NW, Sixth
Floor, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 289-6051 (fax); or tkerns@asmfc.org
(e-mail).
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Division
of Fish and Wildlife will stock a variety of warmwater fish at more than
105 children's fishing events throughout the state this spring and
summer. Approximately 10,000 sunfish, 2,500 channel catfish and a mix
of hundreds of brown bullhead, largemouth bass and black crappie are
slated for stocking by the Division's Hackettstown State Fish Hatchery
in Warren County.
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