The Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission approved an 8,000 lb trip limit for the federal Winter II (November 1 – December 31) scup fishery.  This trip limit goes into effect on November 1, 2011 and conforms to the federal trip limit for this period. 

The federal Winter I scup fishery (January 1 – April 30) had an underage of 3,366,913 lbs, which rolled into the 3,245,500 lb federal Winter II scup quota.  According to the federal management plan for scup, Winter I rollovers in excess of 2,000,000 lbs allows the Winter II trip limit to be set at 8,000 lbs.