Sec. 18. Stock assessments used for fisheries managed under Gulf of Mexico Council’s Reef Fish Management Plan
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Title IV ( 16 U.S.C. 1881 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission shall conduct all fishery stock assessments used for management purposes by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council for the fisheries managed under the Council’s Reef Fish Management Plan. Such fishery assessments shall— incorporate fisheries survey information collected by university researchers; and to the extent practicable, use State, university, and private assets to conduct fisheries surveys.
Any such fishery stock assessment conducted after the date of the enactment of the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act shall incorporate fishery surveys conducted, and other relevant fisheries information collected, on and around natural and artificial reefs. Each such fishery assessment shall— emphasize constituent and stakeholder participation in the development of the assessment; contain all of the raw data used in the assessment and a description of the methods used to collect that data; and employ an assessment process that is transparent and includes— includes a rigorous and independent scientific review of the completed fishery stock assessment; and a panel of independent experts to review the data and assessment and make recommendations on the most appropriate values of critical population and management quantities. .
The table of contents in the first section is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 408 the following: Sec. 409. Stock assessments used for fisheries managed under Gulf of Mexico Council's Reef Fish Management Plan. .
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