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Agenda - Updated
Scallop Documents
1. Scallop Plan Development Team
a. Presentation by Council staff
b. Presentation by Dr. Dvora Hart, NEFSC
c. Scallop PDT memo to SSC re FY 2026-2027 OFLs and ABCs for Atlantic sea scallops, October 1, 2025
d. Risk Policy Matrix for scallops
2. Scallop Fishery Information
a. Affected Environment for Scallop Framework Adjustment 39, including background information on the social and economic status of the fishery (see p. 82-1119)
b. Fishery Performance Report – Scallop landings, grades, and LPUE (GARFO)
3. Previous SSC recommendations regarding scallops
a. Meeting materials, October 9, 2024
b. SSC report (OFLs and ABCs), October 29, 2024
c. Meeting materials, August 19, 2025,
d. SSC report (reference points), August 31, 2025
4. Hart, D.R. 2013. Quantifying the tradeoff between precaution and yield in fishery reference points. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 591-603.
5. Correspondence (if any)
Groundfish Documents
1. NEFSC Data Update Reports
a. 2025 Data Update: Unit Stock of Ocean Pout, Zoarces americanus, September 24, 2025
b. 2025 Data Update: Unit Stock of Atlantic Wolffish, Anarhichas lupus, August 27, 2025
2. Groundfish Plan Development Team
a. Presentation by Council staff
b. Groundfish PDT memo to SSC re FY 2026 – 2030 OFLs and ABCs for ocean pout and Atlantic wolffish, October 1, 2025 - Updated
c. Risk Policy Matrix cover sheet for groundfish stocks
d. Risk Policy Matrix for ocean pout
e. Risk Policy Matrix for Atlantic wolffish
3. Framework Adjustment 69, Affected Environment Human Communities (Section 5.7), March 11, 2025
4. Previous SSC recommendations regarding ocean pout and Atlantic wolffish
a. Meeting materials, October 12, 2022
b. SSC report, November 23, 2022
5. Correspondence (if any)
Background Documents
1. The Council’s Risk Policy Statement and Concept, implemented January, 2025
2. NOAA/NEFSC 2025 State of the Ecosystem Reports for the Northeast U.S. Shelf
Solicitation Information for 2026-2028 Term can be found HERE.