Speak Up for Striped Bass!
If you care about the future of striped bass, make your voice heard by attending a public hearing on proposed striped bass management measures. Individual states have begun scheduling Public Hearings on Striped Bass Draft Addendum IV. Please note that this is not a complete list – more hearings are expected to be scheduled once the official Draft Addendum is released to the public. Note that email addresses are for information about the meetings themselves. Submit written comments to Mike Waine, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, 1050 N. Highland St, Suite A-N, Arlington, VA 22201; 703.842.0741 (FAX) or at mwaine@asmfc.org(Subject line: Draft Addendum IV).
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Urban Forestry Center, 45 Elwyn Road, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Email: Douglas.Grout@wildlife.nh.gov
MASSACHUSETTS
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nantucket Community Room, 4 Fairgrounds Road, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Email: jared.silva@state.ma.us
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Admiral’s Hall, 101 Academy Drive, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Email: jared.silva@state.ma.us
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
MA DMF Annisquam River Station, 30 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Email: jared.silva@state.ma.us
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Viking Club, 410 Quincy Avenue (Route 53), Braintree, Massachusetts
Email: jared.silva@state.ma.us
RHODE ISLAND
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
University of Rhode Island, Corless Auditorium, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island
Email: nicole.lengyel@dem.ri.gov
CONNECTICUT
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Marine Headquarters, Boating Education Center, 333 Ferry Road, Old Lyme Connecticut
Email: deep.marine.fisheries@ct.gov
NEW JERSEY
Thursday, September 4, 2014
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Galloway Twp. Branch of the Atlantic Co. Library, 306 East Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway, New Jersey
Email: russ.allen@dep.nj.gov
Monday, September 15, 2014
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Toms River Town Hall, L. M. Hirshblond Room, 33 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey
Email: russ.allen@dep.nj.gov
DELAWARE
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
DNREC Auditorium, 89 Kings Highway, Dover, Delaware
Email: john.clark@state.de.us
NORTH CAROLINA
Monday, September 29, 2014
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Dare County Government Complex, 954 Marshall C. Collins Drive, Manteo, North Carolina
Email: michelle.duval@ncdenr.gov
Where’s Maryland? Lol
Wheres NY???????????????????
Agreed where’s New York.?
Sign me up for the NY meeting.
I attended the NH meeting, we unanimously voted to a 1 year 25 percent reduction in bass mortality. Which means a 1 fish 32″ minimum and 25 percent drop in commercial quota. We being on the northern end of the Bass migration have probably noticed a bigger change in fishing than our southern comrads. Please support for tighter limits, these fish are a natural treasure and need protection, before we see a collapse there is no reason we can’t rebound the stocks to the heights of 10 years ago. We need to change now, if its too late it’s going to take several cycles of these fish to rebound stocks as it did in the 80’s.