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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT CONTEXT Because of the increasing concern about the effects of recreational fishing on fish stocks, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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It achieves these goals by implementing Annual Catch Limits. This changed the context of fisheries management in the United States by providing demands to limit catch, including recreational catch.
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Cogs that are primarily science based are shown as blue; those that involve societal goals are shown as green. Abbreviations used in the diagram are as follows: MRIP -- Marine Recreational Fisheries Program, FES -- Fishery Effort Survey, APAIS -- Access Point Angler Intercept Survey, CPUE -- catch per unit effort, SSC -- Scientific and Statistical Committee, ABC -- Acceptable Biological Catch, ACL -- Annual Catch Limit.
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to use the best available science to provide a recommended Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) , which integrates the most up-to-date understanding of the status of the population of the exploited species and the Council's risk policy such that the ABC ≤ OFL to account for scientific uncertainty.2 Each council appoints suitable qualified people, often highly trained quantitative scientists, to the SSC.
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The MSFCMA introduced new requirements that mandate accountability measures should the ACL be exceeded.4 For species subject to recreational fisheries, this has placed a new demand on estimates of recreational catch -- to be used not only to develop OFLs, but also to ensure compliance with Council-established catch limits (Figure 1.2)
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In addition to the intercept and telephone surveys designed and implemented by the MRFSS program, at least 13 other supplemental or component surveys were conducted by federal or state agencies to ascertain marine recreational fishery catch and effort. These additional surveys were funded at least in part through the MRFSS program and were intended to produce data that were compatible with MRFSS objectives, although the methodologies and statistical techniques often varied from the core telephone and intercept surveys conducted under the MRFSS.
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Overall, the 2006 report called for a considerable redesign of the survey program to modernize the survey methods to reduce bias, increase efficiency, and build greater trust and relationships with the recreational angling community. The report acknowledged the tremendous complexity of the challenges associated with implementing a survey program such as the MRFSS and in performing statistical analyses with the resulting data.
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. To ensure transparency and to achieve customer and stakeholder support, the ESC and the MRIP teams comprise members from NMFS headquarters, its regions and Fisheries Science Centers, and state agency and Interstate Marine Fishery Commissions staff.
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. At each meeting, the committee heard from representatives from federal and state government, including MRIP staff and contractors; MRIP consultants; and regional stakeholders, such as anglers, nongovernmental organizations, and representatives from fishing associations and organizations.
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4. Determine if the degree of coordination among federal, state, and ter ritorial survey programs is sufficient to provide a clear, national perspec tive on marine recreational fisheries.
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The appendixes in this report include committee and staff biographies; the summary of the 2006 NRC report; a table of the 2006 recommendations, indicating the most relevant chapter in this report for each and the committee's ranking of NMFS responses; an excerpt from the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006; copies of the survey instruments; excerpts from the 2014 Calibration Workshops; and a list of acronyms.
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