SSC Reprt Council re :Acceptable Biological Catch of Red Crab, including Discards and Female

June 10, 2010 ToR and Background Memorandum from Paul Howard

1. PDT discussion paper titled: “Options for Potential Female Red Crab Harvest for Inclusion in the ABC and ACL.”
2. PDT discussion paper titled: “Estimates of Historical Discards and Discard Mortality Rates in Fisheries for which Red Crab Is Caught Incidentally.”
3. PDT discussion paper titled: “PDT Analysis of Dead Discards and Potential Female Allowable Landings to be added to the Interim ABC for Red Crab.”
4. “Escape ring selectivity, bycatch, and discard survivability in the New England fishery for deep-water red crab, Chaceon quinqueden”, S. M. L. Tallack

1. U.S. Atlantic Salmon Stock Structure, Status, and Metrics Information Brief for New England Council to amend the Atlantic Salmon FMP in 2010 (J. Kocik, NEFSC)
   
1a. - Draft #2 - U.S. Atlantic Salmon Stock Structure, Status, and Metrics Information
2. Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Salmon, (NEFMC, 1987)

C.  Control Rules
         1.   Summary of NEFMC ABC Control Rules
         2.   PowerPoint Presentation – ABC Control Rule
         3.   Risk Policy and Managing for Uncertainty Across the Regional FMCs, dated 5/2010
         4.   Evolution of Mortality Control Rules – Northeast Multispecies FMP

D. Research Recommendations – draft information for 2010-2011
         1.   Final Research Recommendations, 2010, edited to include groundfish updates
         2.   Updated sea scallop and monkfish research priorities