I am forwarding this email I received from the National Assoc of Charter Operators, it lists information on how to contact MAFMC with your comments on the proposed Fluke/Scup reduction. The information includes email contact info which is the most direct and easiest way to have yur feelings felt. The more noise we make the better chance we have.
It will take you no longer to do this than to post on this site, everyone should send a well thought out comment in.
Thanks Capt Bob
Dear NACO Member,
NMFS proposes to implement Framework Adjustment 7 (Framework 7) to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP), developed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council). Framework 7 would broaden the FMP stock status determination criteria for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass, while maintaining objective and measurable criteria for identifying when the FMP stocks are overfished or approaching an overfished condition. The framework action would also establish acceptable categories of peer review for providing new or revised stock status determination criteria for the Council to use in its annual management measures for each species. This action is necessary to ensure that changes or modification to the stock status determination criteria constituting the best available peer reviewed scientific information are accessible for the management of these three species in as timely a manner as is possible. The intended effect of this action is to improve the timeliness and efficiency of incorporating the best available scientific information, consistent with National Standards 1 and 2 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), into the management processes for the three species covered by the FMP.
DATES: Written comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. local time on September 5, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
E-mail: FSB.framework7@noaa.gov. Include in the subject line the following identifier: ``Comments on FSB Framework Adjustment 7.''
Federal e-rulemaking portal:
http://www.regulations.gov Mail: Patricia A. Kurkul, Regional Administrator, NMFS, Northeast Regional Office, One Blackburn Drive , Gloucester , MA 01930 .
Mark the outside of the envelope: ``Comments on FSB Framework Adjustment 7.''
Fax: (978) 281-9135
Copies of Framework Adjustment 7 are available from Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council,
Room 2115, Federal Building , 300 South New Street, Dover , DE 19901 -6790. The framework document is also accessible via the Internet at
http://www.nero.noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Ruccio, Fishery Policy Analyst, (978) 281-9104.
Keeping You Informed
National Association of Charterboat Operators
www.nacocharters.org
