This action adjusts the 2024 specifications for the Atlantic herring fishery to account for catch overages and carryover of unharvested catch (i.e., underages) from 2022. We recently completed our final catch accounting for 2022 and determined that there were catch overages in Areas 1A, 1B, and 3 and a catch underage in Area 2. The table below describes how we adjusted the 2024 specifications to account for 2022 catch.
Table 1. Herring Catch Limits, Catch, Overage Deductions, and Carryover (all values are in metric tons (mt)).
| Final 2022 sub-ACLs | 2022 Catch | 2022 Overages (+) Underages (-) | Allowable Deductions* | Allowable Carryover** | Initial 2024 sub-ACLs | Adjusted 2024 sub-ACLs | |
| Area 1A | 2,075 | 2,325 | + 250 | 42 | NA | 5,546 | 5,504 |
| Area 1B | 0 | 6 | + 6 | 6 | NA | 825 | 819 |
| Area 2 | 1,300 | 79 | - 1,221 | NA | 114 | 5,335 | 5,449 |
| Area 3 | 1,824 | 1,825 | + 1 | 0 | NA | 7,484 | 7,484 |
| ACL*** | 4,813 | 4,234 | NA | 48 | NA | 19,189 | 19,141 |
* Allowable deductions are overage amounts exceeding 10 percent of the final 2022 sub-ACLs.
** Allowable carryover is limited to 10 percent of the initial 2022 sub-ACL. The initial sub-ACL for Area 2 was 1,139 mt before it was adjusted in-season to 1,300 mt.
*** The 2024 ACL is reduced by overage deductions from Areas 1A and 1B, but it is not increased by carryover.
Questions?
Fishermen: Contact Carrie Nordeen, Regional Office, 978-28-9272
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