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VMRC scientist: striped bass remains overfished; ASMFC to seek rapid options to rebuild by 2029
Summary
VMRC stock-assessment scientist Brooke Lohman told the Fisheries Management Advisory Committee that female spawning biomass remains below the threshold and recruitment has been weak; the ASMFC Board has asked the Technical Committee to develop options to reach a 50% rebuilding probability by 2029 and will hold a public webinar Dec. 5.
Brooke Lohman, a stock-assessment scientist with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, told the Fisheries Management Advisory Committee that the Atlantic striped bass population remains below the biological threshold used to define an "overfished" stock and that recruitment has been below average for six of the past seven years. "The population is still below the threshold level," she said, adding that fishing mortality is above the target but below the threshold, so "overfishing is not occurring."
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Technical Committee and management board are moving quickly because the stock is in a rebuilding plan. Lohman said the ASMFC Board has…
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