{"id":62275,"date":"2025-09-09T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=62275"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:30:34","slug":"news-2025-09-09-asmfc-releases-public-hearing-schedule-for-striped-bass-draft-addendum-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2025-09-09-asmfc-releases-public-hearing-schedule-for-striped-bass-draft-addendum-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"ASMFC Releases Public Hearing Schedule for Striped Bass Draft Addendum III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NJ’s Public Hearing – September 16<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has issued a Press Release<\/a> <\/i> announcing public hearings on Draft Addendum III to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Draft Addendum<\/a> <\/i> considers changes to recreational and commercial management measures to support rebuilding the stock by 2029, as well as commercial tagging programs, a coastwide definition of total length for size limit regulations, and changes to the Maryland recreational season baseline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Jersey\u2019s public hearing will be held in-person<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, September 16<\/strong>
In-Person Hearing<\/strong><\/em>
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm<\/strong><\/td>		New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection<\/strong>

Hearing Location:<\/strong><\/em>
Stafford Township Fire Co.
133 Stafford Ave, Manahawkin, NJ<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, ASMFC will hold a General Public Hearing Webinar<\/strong> for those that cannot attend their state\u2019s hearing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, September 29<\/strong>
Webinar Hearing<\/strong><\/em>
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm<\/strong><\/td>		General Public Hearing Webinar<\/strong>

The webinar registration link is available here<\/strong><\/a> <\/i>, and additional webinar instructions are below.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are unable to attend New Jersey\u2019s Public Hearing or the General Public Hearing Webinar, you are welcome to participate in any of the scheduled virtual or hybrid hearings<\/a> <\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearing Presentation Recording<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who cannot attend any in-person or virtual hearings, ASMFC will also post a recording of the hearing presentation on ASMFC\u2019s YouTube page so that stakeholders may watch the presentation and submit comment at any time during the comment process. This recording will be available by early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submitting Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public comment deadline is October 3, 2025. Public comment can be submitted via:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Written comments<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0Atlantic Striped Bass Action Tracker<\/a> <\/i> or <\/i> comments@asmfc.org<\/strong><\/a>
2. Public comment form<\/strong><\/a> <\/i>, which was developed to facilitate the gathering of input on the Draft Addendum\u2019s specific options
3. Mailed written comments<\/strong>\u00a0addressed to Emilie Franke, FMP Coordinator, at 1050 N. Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, Virginia 22201
4. Verbal comments<\/strong>\u00a0provided at any of the scheduled public hearings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please contact\u00a0Brendan Harrison at <\/i> Brendan.Harrison@deptest.nj.gov<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with any questions about these public hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NJ’s Public Hearing – September 16 The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has issued a Press Release  announcing public hearings on Draft Addendum III to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass. The Draft Addendum  considers changes to recreational and commercial management measures to support rebuilding the stock by 2029, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":23117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-commercial","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62282,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275\/revisions\/62282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}