Windowpane Flounder Sub-ACL for the Directed Scallop Fishery
Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Stock Area

Report run on:

August 22, 2018

For data reported through:

July 31, 2018

Quota period:

2017

Quota period dates:

03/01/17 to 03/31/18

Date

Limited Access Fleet*

Limited Access General Category IFQ Fleet

Monthly total catch (lb)

Cumulative catch (lb)

Percent of
sub-ACL (460,766 lb)

Nantucket
Lightship

Southern New England

Mid-Atlantic

Nantucket
Lightship

Southern New England

Mid-Atlantic

Discards (lb)

Dredge discards (lb)

Trawl discards (lb)

Dredge discards (lb)

Trawl discards (lb)

Dredge discards (lb)

Trawl discards (lb)

March-17

6,444

4,410

1,471

304

281

395

13,305

2.9

April-17

42,154

3,815

5,178

1,731

590

1,361

226

55,054

68,359

14.8

May-17

29,307

14,379

3,673

1,914

973

702

171

51,134

119,493

25.9

June-17

15,041

11,530

2,915

1,495

565

241

31,787

151,280

32.8

July-17

13,838

11,964

1,850

1,083

729

29,470

180,749

39.2

August-17

22,011

8,764

2,421

1,516

801

35,518

216,267

46.9

September-17

9,761

2,791

1,590

1,365

380

15,888

232,156

50.4

October-17

11,519

5,065

2,554

1,373

359

20,940

253,096

54.9

November-17

16,027

1,599

796

415

213

19,050

272,145

59.1

December-17

14,767

1,030

358

477

209

16,842

288,988

62.7

January-18

10,919

810

243

447

181

12,600

301,588

65.5

February-18

5,698

2,568

412

776

267

160

9,881

311,469

67.6

March-18

1,347

2,436

896

769

246

5,694

317,163

68.8

Total

198,833

71,161

24,357

3,949

11,559

6,408

868

317,163

*The limited access fleet is not split into dredge and trawl components because there is insufficient observer coverage for such a stratification.

In order to comply with data confidentiality requirements, discards for areas and/or gear types that only have 1 - 2 vessels in a month will be aggregated with discards from preceding month(s) until the 3 vessel minimum is met.

NOTE: When available, this report uses the most recent 12 months of audited observer data (March 2017 - March 2018) for both fleets in Southern New England, Mid-Atlantic and Nantucket Lightship.

These data are the best available to NOAA's National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) when this report was compiled. Data for this report are supplied to NMFS from vessels via Vessel Trip Reporting and the Vessel Monitoring System, and dealers via Dealer Electronic Reporting. Data may be preliminary. Discrepancies with previous reports are due to corrections made to the database.