Biological and Fisheries Profile of Spotted Seatrout 'Cynoscion nebulosus'

摘要

In the early 1970s, state marine fisheries management agencies and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) began a cooperative program to prepare and implement fishery management plans for coastal migratory species and shared fisheries resources occurring in the Territorial Sea along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. This effort, called the State-Federal Fisheries Management Program, resulted in cooperative management plans for species such as the American lobster, surf clam, striped bass, Atlantic menhaden, penseid (southern) shrimp, pandalid (northern shrimp), and summer flounder, as well as development of a cooperative statistics program in the Southeast Region of the United States. This spotted seatrout profile represents the initial step in preparation of plans for cooperative management of important sciaenid species occurring along the Atlantic coast.