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DMF director warns ASMFC lobster gauge dispute could trigger interstate compliance review
Summary
Dan McKeonan, director of the Division of Marine Fisheries, warned the advisory commission that recent actions by Maine and New Hampshire on an ASMFC lobster gauge increase have created a compliance dispute that the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission must address and that could trigger federal involvement.
Dan McKeonan, director of the Division of Marine Fisheries, summarized a multi-state dispute over a planned minimum-size (gauge) increase for lobster that the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) had adopted in Addendum 27.
Why it matters: If one or more states do not implement a mandatory interstate conservation measure, ASMFC has procedures to find a state out of compliance; that could lead to federal involvement and — in rare cases — extreme enforcement actions affecting interstate commerce.
McKeonan told commissioners that Maine’s commissioner publicly “pulled” the regulation at a contentious public hearing and that New Hampshire’s governor announced the state would not adopt the minimum-size…
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