Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission
Summary of Motions & Actions
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MARCH 14, 2001 MEETING SUMMARY |
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MOTIONS |
ACTIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT |
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| Trotline start time should be 1 hour before sunrise May through September and sunrise in April, October, and November. | Crab proposal changed to: Trotlines-between the times of 1 hour before sunrise to 7 hours after sunrise. | ||||||||||
| Crab pot start time should be 1/2 hour before sunrise | Crab proposal changed to:Crab pots, bank traps, collapsible traps, net rings, scrapes, handlines, or dip nets- between the times of 1/2 hour before sunrise to 7 1/2 hours after sunrise. | ||||||||||
| Crab regulations should be amended to sunset each year. | No action taken. | ||||||||||
| Add 1/2 hour to beginning of workday for trotlines and 1/2 hour to end of work day to allow time to set and retrieve gear. | By law, passed this session, trotline gear can be set out or taken up at any time | ||||||||||
| Add 1 hour to workday for crab pots to allow time to set gear. | Crab proposal changed to: Crab pots already on board a boat at the end of the specified 8 hour crabbing period may be set for 1 additional hour immediately following the specified 8 hour crabbing period for crab pots, or until 8 1/2 hours after sunrise. | ||||||||||
| Commission disagrees with proposed 8 hour work day. | Considered; however, inconsistent with required effort reduction | ||||||||||
| Workday for crabbing should be 10 hours. | Considered; however, inconsistent with required effort reduction | ||||||||||
| Commission should send letter to Department of Agriculture recommending that mosquito spraying be discontinued on any tidal wetland and marshes. | No action necessary for DNR. | ||||||||||
| Commission endorses proposed study of human health effects and ecological impacts of spraying for West Nile virus. | Department of Agriculture gave a presentation on mosquito spraying and a proposed human health study. No action necessary for DNR. | ||||||||||
| Add 200 yards to the allowable length of drift gill net that can be used by a commercial striped bass licensed fisherman. | Under consideration in the context of permitting commercial harvesters to attain quota | ||||||||||
| Support a change in regulations that would allow striped bass to be filleted by charterboat operators; retain carcasses until disposed of after filets leave charterboat; require charterboats to have special license. | Under consideration | ||||||||||
| Dredge boat oyster seed to be planted in same areas as last year and area openings the same as last year. | Completed | ||||||||||
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15,000 bushel allocation be planted as follows:
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Completed. 4,000 bushels were planted per site = 16K total, which is over the set amount. In addition, DNR planted some additional seed at the sites from a Seed Area in Eastern Bay that yielded more than expected, so the 4 sites were planted with more than the proposed amounts. Grand totals will be available in the annual Seed and Shell Report. (note: the group of sites for Patent Tong was taken to be "one of these" not all of these. One was chosen which was Hacketts) |
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