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Conserve River Herring and Protect Ocean Ecosystems

Please take action to help conserve river herring. (Posted 11-18-08)

With your help, our message is starting to get through to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), soon to be followed with appeals to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service, the two bodies responsible for managing fish in federal waters. We need your support now to help make sure that we are heard loud and clear by January 1, 2009 and beyond, when fishery management specialists at the ASMFC finalize Draft Amendment 2 to the Shad and River Herring Fishery Management Plan.

Annual Catch Limits Rule

In February 2007, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced its intent to revise the 1998 National Standard Guidelines for National Standard 1 (prevent overfishing, achieve optimum yield) to assist fishery management councils in the implementation of the new ACL and AM requirements. In June 2008, NMFS published the proposed rule in the Federal Register with a 90-day public comment period that ended in September. (Posted 07/14/08)

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