Marine Fisheries Commission Quarterly Business Meeting

Meeting Agenda Overview

February 21, 2024

Listen to Day 1 on YouTube

• Conservation Funding Committee – 2024 striped bass stocking supplemental funding request
• Public Comment Period

February 22, 2024

Listen to Day 2 on YouTube

• Public Comment Period
• Preliminary Matters
• Chairman's Report
  • Conservation Funding Committee Verbal Update**
• Director’s Report
• Update on Strategic Habitat Areas (SHA’s) Study Report
• Fishery Management Plans
  • Status of ongoing plans
  • Striped Mullet FMP Amendment 2 (Draft) 
    • Review Public Comment and AC Recommendations
    • Vote on Preferred Management Options**
  • Shrimp FMP Amendment 2 Implementation Items**
    • Information Paper Exploring a Shrimp Trawl Observer Program
    • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Protection Through Shrimp Trawl Area Closures Issue Paper**
• Rules
  • Rulemaking Issues Update
  • Rulemaking
    • 2023-2024 Annual Rulemaking Cycle Update
      • 2024-2025 Rulemaking Cycle
        • Vote on preferred management option and associated proposed language for rulemaking for "False Albacore Management" issue paper**
        • Vote on preferred management option and associated proposed language for rulemaking for "Simplify Pot Marking Requirements" issue paper**
        • Preview of additional rulemaking issues under development
  • Issues from Commissioners
  • Meeting Assignments and Preview of Agenda Items for Next Meeting