Type of Statement:

• Main Authors: Office Of Sustainable Fisheries, Margo Schulze-haugen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Fishery Management Council. Draft Environmental Impact Statement; Initial Regulatory Impact Review; Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis; Initial Social Impact Statement National Marine Fisheries Service For Further Information; Porbeagle
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.423.1149; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/FMP/AM2_DEIS/Total.pdf

Lead Agency: Implement management measures consistent with recent stock assessments for sandbar, porbeagle, dusky, blacktip, and Large Coastal Sharks (LCS); initiate rebuilding plans for porbeagle, dusky, and sandbar sharks; implement commercial quotas and retention limits consistent with stock assessment recommendations to prevent overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks; modify recreational measures to reduce fishing mortality of overfished/overfishing stocks; modify reporting requirements; modify timing of shark stock assessments; clarify timing of release for annual Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) reports; update dehooking requirements for smalltooth sawfish; collect shark life history information through the implementation of a shark research program; and, consider additional time/area closures proposed by the South Atlantic