| Magnuson-Stevens Act Implementation |
| Activity Sheet # | N-02.01 | November 15, 2005 |
| Activity: | FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLANS: Advise Councils of required provisions in FMPs [Sec. 108(a); |
| pp. 40-42] |
| Completion date: | December 17, 1996 | December 19, 1996 |
| Product (s): | Letter to Councils advising them of amended and/or new required provisions in FMPs |
| Overview and scope of task and sub-tasks: |
| Completed | A. Existing FMPs and FMP regulations must be amended, as appropriate, by October |
| 11, 1998, and |
| Completed | B. new FMPs, FMP amendments 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] |
| Completed |
| (2) Bycatch measures: Develop management measure to minimize bycatch or |
| mortality of bycatch [Sec. 108(a)(7); p. 41] |
| Completed |
| (3) Commercial, recreational, and charter fishing: FMPs must specify data for each |
| sector [Sec. 108(a)(2); p.40] |
| Completed |
| (4) Commercial, recreational, and charter fishing: FMPs must describe these sectors |
| and quantify trends in landings [Sec. 108(a)(7); p. 42] |
| Completed |
| (5) Essential fish habitat: FMPs must describe andidentify essential fish habitat; |
| adverse effects on such habitat; minimize, to the extent possible, adverse effects |
| from fishing; and identify other actions to encourage the conservation of such |
| habitat [Sec. 108(a)(3); p. 40] |
| Completed |
| (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] |
| Completed |
| (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] |
| Completed |
| (8) Overfishing: FMPs must rebuild overfished stocks [Sec. 108(a)(1); p. 40; see also |
| Sec. 109(e), pp.64-68] |
| Completed |
| (9) Overfishing: If re-building requires reduced harvests, restrictions and recovery |
| benefits must be fairly allocated among harvesters [Sec. 108(a)(7); p.42] |
| Completed |
| (10) Overfishing: FMPs with recreational catch-and-release programs must include |
| measures to minimize mortality [Sec. 108(a)(7); pp. 41-42] |