Magnuson-Stevens Act Implementation

Activity Sheet #

C-05.02

Mandatory

November 15, 2005

Activity:

FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLANS: Required provisions in FMPs [Sec. 108(a); pp. 40-42]

Caribbean Fishery Management Council

Completion date:

October 11, 1998

Product (s):

All FMPs and FMP regulations contain the required provisions

Overview and scope of task and sub-tasks:

A. All new FMPs, amendments to existing FMPs, and FMP regulations must include the

following provisions, as appropriate:

(1) Bycatch reports: Standardized reporting methods to assess the type and amount

of bycatch in a fishery [Sec. 108(a)(7); p.41]

(2) Bycatch measures: Develop management measure to avoid bycatch or minimize

mortality of bycatch [Sec. 108(a)(7); p. 41]

(3) Commercial, recreational, and charter fishing: FMPs must specify data for each

sector [Sec. 108(a)(2); p.40]

(4) Commercial, recreational, and charter fishing: FMPs must describe these sectors

and quantify trends in landings [Sec. 108(a)(7); p. 42]

(5) Essential fish habitat: FMPs must describe and identify essential fish habitat;

identify adverse effects on such habitat; minimize to the extent practicable, adverse

impacts from fishing; and identify other actions to encourage the conservation of

such habitat [Sec. 108(a)(3); p. 40]

(6) Fishing communities: FMPs must include fishery impact statements which assess

the likely effects of measures on fishing communities [Sec. 108(a)(5); p. 40]

(7) Overfishing: FMPs must specify objective and measurable criteria for identifying

whether a fishery is overfished, and include measures to prevent overfishing [Sec.

108(a)(7); p. 41]

(8) Overfishing: FMPs must rebuild overfished stocks [Sec. 108(a)(1); p. 40]

(9) Overfishing: If re-building requires reduced harvests, restrictions and recovery

benefits must be fairly allocated among harvesters [Sec. 108(a)(7); p.42]

(10) Overfishing: FMPs with recreational catch-and-release programs must include

measures to minimize mortality [Sec. 108(a)(7); pp. 41-42]

B. Existing FMPs and FMP regulations must be amended, as appropriate, by October

11, 1998

(1) Amend FMP for Spiny Lobster

(2) Amend FMP for Shallow Water Reef Fish

(3) Amend FMP for Corals and Reef Associated Plants and Invertebrates

C. Develop new FMPs, as necessary, with the required provisions [SFA 108(a);

M-SFCMA 303(a)]