SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES Sample Clauses

SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Habitat loss, poor water quality, non-native and invasive species, toxics and fishing pressure continue to threaten the sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries. Sustaining fish and shellfish populations contributes to a strong economy and maritime culture and supports a healthy ecosystem for all Bay watershed residents. Blue Crab Abundance 4 Outcome Blue Crab Management Outcome GOAL: Protect, restore and enhance finfish, shellfish and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fisheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and Bay. 🡒 Maintain a sustainable blue crab population based on the current 2012 target of 215 million adult females. Refine population targets through 2025 based on best available science. 🡒 Manage for a stable and productive crab fishery including working with the industry, recreational crabbers and other stakeholders to improve commercial and recreational harvest accountability. By 2018, evaluate the establishment of a Bay-wide, allocation-based management framework with annual levels set by the jurisdictions for the purpose of accounting for and adjusting harvest by each jurisdiction. Oyster Outcome Forage Fish Outcome Fish Habitat Outcome Continually increase finfish and shellfish habitat and water quality benefits from restored oyster populations. Restore native oyster habitat and populations in 10 tributaries by 2025 and ensure their protection. 🡒 🡒 Continually improve the Partnership’s capacity to understand the role of forage fish populations in the Chesapeake Bay. By 2016, develop a strategy for assessing the forage fish base available as food for predatory species in the Chesapeake Bay. 🡒 Continually improve effectiveness of fish habitat conservation and restoration efforts by identifying and characterizing critical spawning, nursery and forage areas within the Bay and tributaries for important fish and shellfish, and use existing and new tools to integrate information and conduct assessments to inform restoration and conservation efforts. VITAL HABITATS Increasing needs for land and resources have resulted in fragmentation and degradation of many habitats across the watershed while also challenging the health of many Bay watershed species. Conserving healthy habitats and restoring the connectivity and function of degraded habitats is essential to the long-term resilience and sustainability of the ecosystem and the region’s quality of life. Wetlands Outcome...
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SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Habitat loss, poor water quality non-native and invasive species, toxics and fishing pressure continue to threaten the sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay's fisheries. Sustaining fish and shellfish populations contributes to a strong economy and maritime culture and supports a healthy ecosystem for all Bay watershed residents. Goal: Protect, restore, and enhance finfish, shellfish and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fisheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and Bay.
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Habitat loss, poor water quality, non-native and invasive species, toxics and fishing pressure continue to threaten the sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries. Sustaining fish and shellfish populations contributes to a strong economy and maritime culture and supports a healthy ecosystem for all Bay watershed residents. Blue Crab Abundance 4 Outcome Blue Crab Management Outcome
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES based livelihoods. Lack of training, equipment, and basic access to credit by SSFs is limiting their livelihoods, business growth, and implementation of sustainable practices. Lack of access to credit is often the result of a misguided perception that the fishers lack assets and creditworthiness. SSFs cannot access national insurance schemes without appropriate registration and licensing, but they often are unaware of this requirement or the benefits of registering. Their options for livelihoods are further hindered by lack of capacity or understanding of post-harvest quality standards and underutilized functional fish centers, resulting in value and market losses and inaccessible niche markets. Key challenges
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Habitat loss, poor water quality, non-native and invasive species, toxics and fshing pressure continue to threaten the sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay’s fsheries. Sustaining fsh and shellfsh populations contributes to a strong economy and maritime culture and supports a healthy ecosystem for all Bay watershed residents. Blue Crab GOAL: Protect, restore and enhance fnfsh, shellfsh and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fsheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and Bay. Maintain a sustainable blue crab population based on the current Abundance 2012 target of 215 million adult females. Refne population targets 4 Outcome through 2025 based on best available science. Blue Crab Manage for a stable and productive crab fshery including working g Management with the industry, recreational crabbers and other stakeholders to Outcome Oyster Outcome improve commercial and recreational harvest accountability. By 2018, evaluate the establishment of a Bay-wide, allocation-based management framework with annual levels set by the jurisdictions for the purpose of accounting for and adjusting harvest by each jurisdiction. g Continually increase fnfsh and shellfsh habitat and water quality benefts from restored oyster populations. Restore native oyster habitat and populations in 10 tributaries by 2025 and ensure their protection. g Forage Fish Continually improve the Partnership’s capacity to understand the role Outcome of forage fsh populations in the Chesapeake Bay. By 2016, develop a strategy for assessing the forage fsh base available as food for g predatory species in the Chesapeake Bay.
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Habitat loss, poor water quality and fishing pressure continue to threaten the sustainability of the Comment [cpb4]: NEW: Intro developed by GIT Staff. EB edited this and all GIT intro text for consistency of voice and structure. All intros now state issue, offer solution that supports reason for Goal Chesapeake Bay's fisheries. Sustaining fish and shellfish populations contributes to a strong economy and maritime culture and supports a healthy ecosystem for all Bay watershed residents. Goal: Protect, restore, and enhance finfish, shellfish and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fisheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and bay.
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. A. Agreement of the procedure‌ As soon as a need for a formal or informal consultation is identified, SERO Division (SFD) will notify the Council by the next Council meeting. The Council will be notified whether Notification will occur if the need to (re)initiate is consultation is initiated due to a potential Council action (i.e., selection of a preferred alternative) or due to external factors, changes external to the Council process, including but not limited to, changes in species listing or critical habitat, new scientific information on a listed species or interactions with the fishery, or exceedance of the incidental take statement (ITS). At the meeting the Council is notified that formal consultation needs to be (re)initiated, the Council will discuss, either At the Council meeting during the Protected Resources Committee and/or at the full Council session, the Council will discuss, with input from SERO and NOAA General Counsel, the level of involvement (I, II, or III) that the Councilit requests for the consultation. Once consultation has been initiated, SERO Protected Resources Division (PR) and SFD, and the Council will also agree on a tentativetentatively agree on a timeline for delivery of draft RPAs/RMPMSs and draft biological opinion for review if the level of involvement includes review of these draft documents. It is acknowledged that timing may need to be adjusted during the process, and that SERO PR will notify the Council as soon as possible when there are any changes to the timeline. Additionally, the Agreement focuses on ESA requirements but will also include some MMPA issues that interact with the Council process.
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SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES. Protect, restore, and enhance finfish, shellfish and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fisheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and Bay.

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