South Atlantic Fishery Management Council

Jan. 2021 Public Hearings: Dolphin & Wahoo Management Measures (Dolphin Wahoo Amendment 10)

Date:
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Location: Via webinar only. Three sessions.

The draft amendment proposes multiple actions to address dolphin and wahoo management measures:

  • Actions that accommodate revised recreational data and catch level recommendations
    • Revise the total annual catch limit for dolphin to reflect the updated acceptable biological catch level
    • Revise the total annual catch limit for wahoo to reflect the updated acceptable biological catch level
    • Revise sector allocations and sector annual catch limits for dolphin
    • Revise sector allocations and sector annual catch limits for wahoo
  • Actions that change accountability measures 
    • Revise the trigger for the post-season recreational accountability measures for dolphin
    • Revise the post-season recreational accountability measures for dolphin
    • Revise the trigger for the post-season recreational accountability measures for wahoo
    • Revise the post-season recreational accountability measures for wahoo
  • Actions that implement various management revisions in the dolphin and wahoo fisheries
    • Allow properly permitted commercial fishing vessels with trap, pot, or buoy gear on board that are not authorized for use in the dolphin wahoo fishery to possess commercial quantities of dolphin and wahoo  
    • Remove the requirement of vessel operators or crew to hold an Operator Card in the Dolphin Wahoo Fishery
    • Reduce the recreational vessel limit for dolphin 
    • Allow filleting of dolphin at sea on board charter or headboat vessels in the waters north of the Virginia/North Carolina border
    • Revise the wahoo vessel limit
    • Revise the wahoo bag limit