Squid management meeting in Narragansett 5/22/2013

[JasonD]

Thanks for posting this - I was going to do the same. These meetings are focused on the commercial fishery but we're happy to get input from recreational squidders as well. Right now the Council sets an annual quota for longfin squid (the species that is encountered inshore) that is expected to be sustanable (22,049 mt or a bit less than 50 million pounds) and it is believed that the recreational catch is very small compared to the overall quota. The main fishing survey on the East Coast doesn't collect invertebrate data so it's hard to know exactly...



Good squidding,

Jason



Jason Didden

Fishery Management Plan Coordinator for Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish

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