Ocean Harvesters Urges ASMFC to Test ‘Gauntlet’ Theory Before Advancing Chesapeake Menhaden Limits
Ocean Harvesters has called on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Management Board to delay new purse seine restrictions in the Chesapeake Bay until the Plan Development Team rigorously tests the “gauntlet” theory underpinning the proposed addendum.
The company says the theory—that Ocean Harvesters’ purse seine fishery in the lower Bay blocks menhaden from reaching Maryland pound nets—has not been adequately examined. “Before the Commission advances restrictions premised on a single, untested narrative, the PDT should rigorously examine what’s...
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