[Rimarinefisheries] Regulatory Workshop: Tuesday, January 21, 2025; 4:30pm

MEETING NOTICE – REGULATORY WORKSHOP

Please be advised the DEM Division of Marine Fisheries will be holding a regulatory workshop on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 4:30pm to solicit input regarding prospective and/or proposed amendments to the marine fisheries regulations.

 

In person:  URI Bay Campus, Corless Auditorium, 215 South Ferry Road, Narragansett RI

 

Zoom webinar:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328776640?pwd=Q07P3RNOMGZSTWdZxAX57WP30ziAUq.1 [us02web.zoom.us]; meeting ID: 823 2877 6640; Passcode: 752198; dial in: 1-929-205-6099 (listen only)

 

AGENDA

 

• 2025 recreational striped bass management
• 2025 commercial general category striped bass management
• 2025 commercial floating fish trap striped bass management
• Commercial menhaden management
• 2025 commercial bluefish management
• 2025 recreational tautog management
• 2025 recreational cobia management
• 2025 recreational summer flounder management
• 2025 recreational scup management
• 2025 recreational black sea bass management
• 2025 commercial black sea bass management
• Pots and buoy (ghost panel) regulations
• Summer/Fall Aggregate Program for Summer Flounder and Black Sea Bass

 

Please send proposals to John Lake @ john.lake@dem.ri.gov no later than Friday, December 13^th if you would like a proposal included in the workshop slide presentation.  Staff will make every effort to include your proposal.  Please contact staff for additional details.

 

Dates for the public hearing and RI Marine Fisheries Council meeting to be determined.  Please stay tuned for future meeting announcements on the Division’s listserve.  To subscribe to the Division’s listserve, send email to rimarinefisheries-subscribe@listserve.ri.gov.

 

Thank you.