- Introductions and announcements
- Review and approval of agenda
- Review and approval of September minutes
- Updates
- Chairman
- Commissioner
- Director
- Law Enforcement
- Presentation on acoustic tagging research (Dr. Mike Armstrong)
- LUNCH
- Action Items
- Commercial and recreational winter flounder recommendations
- Winter II scup specification (status quo 2,000-lb. trip limit)
- Public hearing proposals for horseshoe crab fishery
- Discussion Items
- NEFMC Update
- Lobster update – Upcoming 2010 federal maximum size and v-notch restrictions in OCCLCMA
- 2010 Black sea bass fishery
- Catch shares for state waters
- Inshore Net Restricted Areas menhaden fishing
- Other Business
- Marine Fisheries Commissioner Comments
Directions to the Annisquam River Marine Fisheries Station (30 Emerson Ave.):
- From Route 128, take first exit off rotary onto Washington St.
- Go RIGHT onto Centennial Ave.
- Veer RIGHT onto Emerson Ave
- The station is about 250 yards on the left
NEXT MFC MEETINGS SCHEDULED FOR
- November 12, 2009
- December 3, 2009