The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a meeting of its Standing and Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical Committees on Tuesday, October 31, from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT. The meeting will be held via webinar.
The Scientific and Statistical Committees will address the following items:
  • Legislative approaches to recreational red snapper management
  • Black grouper benchmark stock assessment
  • FWC Gulf hogfish update stock assessment
  • Gulf red grouper standard stock assessment
  • Geographic boundaries for the next assessment of cobia
  • Comparison of stock assessment methodologies for greater amberjack and gray triggerfish
  • Framework Action to modify the the ACT for red snapper federal for hire and private angler components
  • Approaches to estimating red snapper biomass of each Gulf State
For a complete agenda and meeting materials click here.

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