History of the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass FMP Year Document Plan Species Management Action 1988 Original FMP summer flounder - Established management plan for summer flounder 1991 Amendment 1 summer flounder - Established an overfishing definition for summer flounder 1993 Amendment 2 summer flounder - Established rebuilding schedule, commercial quotas, recreational harvest limits, size limits, gear restrictions, permits, and reporting requirements for summer flounder - Created the Summer Flounder Monitoring Committee 1993 Amendment 3 summer flounder - Revised the exempted fishery line - Increased the large mesh net threshold - Established otter trawl retention requirements for large mesh use 1993 Amendment 4 summer flounder - Revised state-specific shares for summer flounder quota allocation 1993 Amendment 5 summer flounder - Allowed states to combine or transfer summer flounder quota 1994 Amendment 6 summer flounder - Set criteria for allowance of multiple nets on board commercial vessels for summer flounder - Established deadline for publishing catch limits, commercial mgmt. measures for summer flounder 1995 Amendment 7 summer flounder - Revised the F reduction schedule for summer flounder 1996 Amendment 8 summer flounder and scup - Incorporated Scup FMP into Summer Flounder FMP and established scup measures including commercial quotas, recreational harvest limits, size limits, gear restrictions, permits, and reporting requirements 1996 Amendment 9 summer flounder and black sea bass - Incorporated Black Sea Bass FMP into Summer Flounder FMP and established black sea bass measures including commercial quotas, recreational harvest limits, size limits, gear restrictions, permits, and reporting requirements 1997 Amendment 10 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Modified commercial minimum mesh requirements, continued commercial vessel moratorium, prohibited transfer of fish at sea, and established special permit for party/charter sector for summer flounder 1998 Amendment 11 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Modified certain provisions related to vessel replacement and upgrading, permit history transfer, splitting, and permit renewal regulations 1999 Amendment 12 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Revised FMP to comply with the SFA and established framework adjustment process 2001 Framework 1 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass -Established quota set-aside for research for all three species 2001 Framework 2 summer flounder - Established state-specific conservation equivalency measures for summer flounder 2003 Framework 3 scup - Allowed the rollover of winter scup quota - Revised start date for summer quota period for scup fishery 2003 Framework 4 scup - Established system to transfer scup at sea 2003 Amendment 13 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Addressed the disapproved sections of Amendment 12 - Revised black sea bass commercial quota system - Addressed other black sea bass mgmt. measures 2004 Framework 5 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Established multi-year specification setting of quota for all three species 2006 Framework 6 summer flounder - Established region-specific conservation equivalency measures for summer flounder 2007 Amendment 14 scup - Established rebuilding schedule for scup 2007 Framework 7 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass - Built flexibility into process to define and update status determination criteria for each plan species - Scup GRAs made modifiable through framework adjustment process

Last Updated:  April 02, 2008