 JCAA
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September
2006 |
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NOTICES |
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JCAA Sportsperson of the Year
Dinner/Dance |
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It’s getting to
that time of year again. The Jersey Coast Anglers Association will be
hosting its annual “Sportsperson-of-the-Year” awards dinner/dance as a
fundraiser on Sunday, November 19, 2006 from 4:00-9:00 p.m. at the Crystal
Point Yacht Club, RT. 70 & River Rd |
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15th Annual Governor's Surf
Fishing Tournament |
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TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF EARLY ENTRY INCENTIVE If your entry form is postmarked by September 9, 2006 you will:
1.SAVE $5.00 on adult registration fee! 2. BE
ELIGIBLE for special prizes only to pre- registrants on tournament day!
3.
AVOID DELAYS – You will receive prior registration verification to avoid
delays on the morning of the Tournament. ....... |
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President's Report
by Bruce Smith |
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A
delegation of ten JCAA past presidents and current Board of Directors
members attended the recent joint ASMFC / MAMFC Fluke, Black Sea Bass and
Bluefish Meeting in Philadelphia on August 2nd. Several
of them spoke to express the position of our member clubs
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Fisheries Management & Legislative Report by
Tom Fote |
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Summer Craziness |
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Most people believe very little happens in the summer
regarding fisheries management. This summer has certainly been an
exception. In early August the Joint Monitoring Committee for ASMFC and
the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council met to set quotas for 2007.
We went........ |
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Weakfish |
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The craziness continues at the
weakfish meeting. Unlike summer flounder where recruitment
has been lousy for the past few years, weakfish has very good
recruitment. There are many small fish but they seem to
disappear. The ASMFC Weakfish Management Board....... |
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Spiny Dogfish Meeting |
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There is a summary of the meeting included below.
Sometimes the irony is so clear. When we talk about summer flounder, we
are discussing harvesting about 20% of the biomass. The current proposal
is for 5 % of the biomass as the quota...... |
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Tautog Board Meeting |
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There is no
good news on tautog either. The stocks are not rebounding even
with the strict management measures in place. My feeling
is that the illegal fishery for the live fish market is what is
destroying the stocks. Until we make the penalties .............. |
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ASMFC Meeting Week - Spiny
Dogfish and Coastal Sharks Management Board |
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The Spiny Dogfish and Coastal
Sharks Management Board met order to discuss the next steps in
the development of the Draft Interstate Fishery Management Plan
for Atlantic Coastal Sharks. After receiving a summary of
public comment on the Public Information Document, an update on
results from the 2006 Large Coastal Shark stock assessment, and ........ |
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ASMFC Meeting Week - Tautog
Management Board |
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Tautog Management
Board approved the development of Draft Addendum IV to the Interstate Fishery
Management Plan for Tautog. The Draft Addendum will propose the establishment of
new biological reference points (target and threshold limits for biomass and
fishing mortality) to define stock rebuilding goals........ |
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ASMFC Meeting Week - Atlantic Menhaden Management
Board |
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Arlington, VA – The Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden
Management Board has approved sending forward for public comment Draft Addendum
III to Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic
Menhaden. The Addendum proposes the establishment a five-year ........ |
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Weakfish Management Board |
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The Weakfish Management Board met with two main
goals: (1) receiving new information from the Weakfish Technical Committee and
(2) determining the next steps for advancing Draft Addendum II to Amendment 4 of
the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Weakfish...... |
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CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON, DC 20515
August 1, 2006 |
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Dear Chairman Smith and Chairman Pate:As you prepare to
jointly finalize management measures for the 2007 summer flounder fishery, we
are writing to express our concerns about potentially drastic cuts that could
have dramatic impacts on New Jersey’s fishermen. ...... |
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Saxton Letter to William
Hogarth, U.S. Dept. of Commerce |
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Dear Dr.
Hogarth,I am writing to
respectfully request NOAA Fisheries undertake a Magnuson-Stevens Act Section
304(e)(7) review of the summer flounder management plan and recommend any needed
changes identified by the review to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council...... |
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JCAA Report on the Joint Meeting of
the MAFMC & ASMFC To Set 2007 Specifications for Summer Flounder, Sea Bass,
Scup, Bluefish |
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The question of the summer flounder
quota for next year was not really decided at the joint meetings of Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council (MAFMC) Management Board at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel
in Philadelphia.
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JCAA & NJSFSC
COMMENTS ON SUMMER FLOUNDER QUOTA FOR 2007 |
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Dear
Council Members and Commissioners.I could not believe my ears when I was told that NMFS
is proposing a reduction of the summer flounder quota to 5.2 million pounds for
2007. This all stems from a target that was set when the plan was first
put in place. That original target was based on poor science and little
understanding of ecosystem management. I have been told by scientists that
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Landings to be
Reduced in 2007 |
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During their meeting last week in Philadelphia to
adopt 2007 fishery management measures, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Summer
Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass and Bluefish Boards..... |
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Oral Congressional
Testimony on Opening of EEZ |
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I
would like to thank Congressmen Gilchrest, Saxton and Pallone for
an opportunity to discuss this important species. I have been before this
committee a number of times in the past to talk about this issue and many other
issues. I have been involved as a commissioner and proxy for a
commissioner on the ASMFC from 1990 until 2005 and probably have the longest
involvement of anyone on this panel in the management of striped bass. It
has been over 30 years..... |
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Education Report - by Greg Kucharewski |
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Take a Veteran Crabbing at the
Jersey Shore |
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The JCAA Youth Education
Committee and members of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 12, will
present a crabbing seminar for veterans and their families at 6:00 p.m.,
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, VFW Post 8867, 373 Adamston Road, Brick, NJ.
A crabbing day is also scheduled on Saturday..... |
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Helping our Military Families |
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The JCAA Youth Education
Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America (Chapter 12), and volunteers
from the Army Community Service Center continue to provide fishing
instruction for over 125 children that attend the Fort Monmouth School Age
Services Summer Camp. The fishing clinics are held at Husky Brook |
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Governor's Surf Fishing
Tournament |
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The JCAA Youth Education
Committee is helping novice anglers at the Governor's 15th Annual Surf
Fishing Tournament, Sunday, October 1, 2006. This will require extra
volunteer hours from member clubs in JCAA. If members in your
fishing club would like to help..... |
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Ohio National Youth Sports
Program |
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The Jersey Coast Anglers
Association’s Youth Education Chairman traveled to the University of
Toledo to support their National Youth Sports Program NYSP, and Youth
Fishing Program. Over 280 children participated in the University of
Toledo’s National Youth Sports Program and celebrated another successful
summer recreation program
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NJ Div of F&W Looking for
Vendors |
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Each year, our annual Wildlife
Heritage Festival draws in thousands of people. This great family
event includes a fishing, hunting and outdoor equipment flea market,
wildlife artists and taxidermists, conservation groups, Division displays,
fishing for kids
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Miscellaneous |
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When are Other Environmental
Groups Going to Step Up to the Plate by
Tom Fote |
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Over the last few weeks I have sent emails about summer
flounder to the other environmental groups with whom JCAA usually works.
I have been eagerly waiting for a reply and hoping for some support.
To date I have heard from only two people.
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Letter to the Dept of the
Interior RE: Renewable Energy and Alternate Use Programmatic EIS
Scoping |
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The Jersey Coast Anglers Association ( JCAA) is writing you with
comments and issues that should be addressed and analyzed in the Environmental
Impact Statement ( EIS ) your agency is in the process of preparing. These
written comments are in addition to those made by JCAA at the May 23, 2006
scoping meeting in Trenton, NJ. These comments are being made on behalf of
the 75 fishing clubs represented by JCAA
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Environment |
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A Long Poisonous Wait
by Alexander Lanes, Star-Ledger Staff |
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In 1992, a New
Jersey appellate court handed down a famously scathing opinion. For almost
two decades ending in 1969, a three-judge panel found, the Diamond Shamrock
Chemicals Co. had polluted the Passaic River, illegally and intentionally.
"Diamond's management was wholly indifferent to the consequences," Appellate
Division Judge David Baime wrote. "Profits came first."
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