The Marine Fisheries Commission is tentatively scheduled to meet August 20-21, 2025 at the Hilton Raleigh North Hills in Raleigh, North Carolina. The address for the hotel is:
3415 Wake Forest Road
Raleigh, N.C. 27609
Meeting Agenda Overview
August 20, 2025
- Preliminary Matters
- Chairman's Report
- Director's Report
- Rulemaking
- 2024-2025 Rulemaking Cycle Update
- 2025-2026 Rulemaking Cycle Update
- Biological Sampling: Fishery Dependent & Independent Programs
- Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan Amendment 3 Adaptive Management (Decision Document)
- 6:00 P.M. Public Comment Period
August 21, 2025
- Public Comment Period
- Atlantic Bonito Information Update (Memo)
- Standard Commercial Fishing License Eligibility Report
- Vote on setting temporary cap on the number of licenses in the Eligibility Pool**
- FMP Annual Review
- Characterization of North Carolina’s Sheepshead Fisheries
- Characterization of North Carolina’s Black Drum Fisheries
- Fishery Management Plans
- Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 4 (Memo)
- Vote on Final Adoption of Amendment 4**
- Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 5
- Commission input on management issues/topics for inclusion in draft plan
- Central/Southern Management Area Striped Bass Data Analysis (Decision Document)
- Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 4 (Memo)
- Issues from Commissioners
- Meeting Assignments and Preview of Agenda Items for Next Meeting