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At the listening session, division staff will present details of the draft amendment and allow the public opportunity to ask questions. The presentation will be recorded and posted on the Information on Southern Flounder Amendment 3 webpage by 5 p.m. Jan. 6.

The Draft Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 3 contains a suite of management options to implement comprehensive, long-term measures to achieve sustainable harvest in the southern flounder fishery. These include:

• Sustainable harvest
• Increased recreational harvest
• Inlet corridors
• Adaptive management
• Sector allocations
• Slot limits
• Phasing out large-mesh gill nets

A companion Decision Document, which precedes the draft amendment in the online document, provides the Division’s initial recommendations and rationale.

More information is available on the Information on Southern Flounder Amendment 3 webpage.

The Marine Fisheries Commission is scheduled to consider public comment and advisory committee input and select its preferred management measures for departmental and legislative review at its February 2022 business meeting and consider final approval of the amendment in May 2022.

For more information contact division biologists Michael Loeffler at 252-381-6002 or Anne Markwith at 910-796-7292.