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"Hardening up" the catch in 

 the net. 



cerns have resulted in numerous area closures along 

 the Atlantic coast. Gulf menhaden landings have 

 declined greatly since the mid I980's, however, 

 estimates ot maximum spawning potential remain 

 high (about 40%). 



Transboundary Stocks and 

 Fishery Management Jurisdictions 



Because this resource migrates long distances 

 along the coast, interstate coordination ot iiicii- 

 haden management is required tor Atlantic men- 

 haden along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and for Gult 

 menhaden along the northetn Gult ot Mexico 

 through the interstate matinc fisheries commis- 

 sions. During the late 1 980's and early 1 990's, fish 

 landed at processing plants in New Brunswick and 



Nova Scotia, Canada, were caught ott Maine h\ 

 U.S. vessels and transported to Canada tor pro- 

 cessing. 



Bycatch and 

 IVIultispecies Interactions 



Two Saltonstall-Kennedy studies, tunded in 

 1992 to investigate bycatch in the Atlantic and 

 Gult menhaden purse-seine fisheries, showed very 

 low bycatch incidence (<0.1% of other species). 

 The importance of menhaden as prey for other 

 species should be considered with respect to 

 multispecics resource management. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Atlantic Menhaden Advisory CAimmittcc. 1992. Fish- 

 ery man,igcnient plan for Atlantic menhaden, 1992 

 revision. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commis- 

 sion, Fishery Management Report No. 22, Washing- 

 ton, D.C., 159 p. 



Cadrin, S. X.. and D. S. V'.iuglian. 1997. Retrospective 

 analysis ot virtu.tl popul.ition estimates tor Atlantic 

 menhaden stock assessment. l"ishery Bulletin ')'S:445— 

 45S. 



Gulf Menhaden Advisor\' ( "ommittec. 1 99S. The men- 

 haden fishery ot the ( jult ot Mexico, United States: A 

 regional management plan. Gult States Marine Fish- 

 eries Comtnission, Report No. 32, Ocean Springs, 

 Mississippi. 



Smith, I. W. 1991. Fhe Atlantic and Gulf menhaden 

 purse seine tisheries: Origins, harvesting technologies, 

 biostatistical monitoring, recent trends in tisheries sta- 

 tistics, and torecasting. Marine Fisheries Review 

 53(4):28-41. 



Vaughan, D. S., E. J. Levi, and j. W. Smith. 1 996. Popu- 

 lation characteristics of (iult menhaden, Hrevnnrtia 

 piitinnns. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- 

 istration Technical Report NMFS 125, IS |i. 



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