Fishery council webinars on blueline tilefish limits
Published Date: 4/4/2025
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Summary
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council is holding a webinar on April 21 and 23, 2025, to review new science about Atlantic Blueline Tilefish. They’ll use this info to suggest safe fishing limits that protect the fish and support fishermen in both the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions. These decisions could affect how much fish can be caught, helping keep the fish population healthy and the fishing industry thriving.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Potential New Catch Limits for Tilefish
On April 21 and April 23, 2025 (1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day), a joint scientific sub‑panel will review the Data Limited Methods (DLM) assessment for Atlantic Blueline Tilefish north of Cape Hatteras and develop preliminary overfishing limit (OFL) and acceptable biological catch (ABC) recommendations. The sub-panel will also develop methods to partition the ABC between Mid‑Atlantic and South Atlantic jurisdictions, and those preliminary catch limits will be presented to the full Councils at later meetings. These decisions could change how much fish fishermen in the Mid‑Atlantic and South Atlantic are allowed to catch.
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