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Advisory committee recommends delaying decisions on license wait‑list and pot‑limit restoration until stock assessment
Summary
Committee discussed reinstating pre‑2008 pot limits and clearing a wait list of 88 licenses but agreed to defer substantive action until the forthcoming stock assessment; staff noted the wait list represents roughly 11,000 pots if fully activated.
The committee revisited requests from watermen to reinstate pre‑2008 pot limits and to remove some licenses from the wait list, but members generally supported postponing any change until new stock assessment results are available.
Speaker 8 summarized the wait list: 88 licenses representing 71 individuals (63 hard‑crab pot licenses and 25 peeler pot licenses). Staff…
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