Weekly Update: March 05, 2025

Did Commercial Fishermen Do Enough?   “If the commercial sector had taken a larger reduction last time, we wouldn’t be here now, needing even more harvest reductions.”   This is not the first time hearing this. We hear it almost every time flounder management is...

Weekly Update: March 03, 2025

From The Executive Director   As we’ve mentioned before, the NCFA does not believe the Marine Fisheries Commission can make any changes to the Blue Crab FMP without an updated stock assessment or a peer reviewed and approved benchmark assessment.   We...