Amendment 8 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan

The Amendment 8 DEIS provides a range of alternatives to address the following issues:
-Establishing a long-term acceptable biological catch control rule that may explicitly account for herring’s role in the ecosystem and address the biological and ecological requirements of the stock; and
-Addressing localized depletion and user group conflict occurring when effort in the herring fishery overlaps, spatially and temporally, with effort in fisheries targeting predators of herring (e.g., tuna, groundfish) or ecotourism industries.