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Originally Posted by Broad Bill
Salt water quotas are set through a collaborative process between the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), NMFS (NOAA Fisheries) and ASMFC. ASMFC and MAFMC develops and recommends fishery management plans (FMPs) and quota specifications based on scientific advice provided by North East Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), while NMFS approves and implements these regulations to ensure they prevent overfishing if you can believe that. MAFMC and ASMFC proposes the limits, and NMFS has the authority to implement, and sometimes modify, those limits to meet the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The level we need to get to is the NMFS or federal because that's where the problem starts and where high level decisions and quotas are set. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) directly regulates allocating a portion of those limits to individual member states for their respective region. MAFMC is responsible for the EEZ, ASMFC waters inside the EEZ.
The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council is a volunteer panel of 11 members appointed by the governor, with the consent of the Senate, including four sports fishermen, two commercial fin fishermen, one fish processor, two general public members, and the chairman of each of the two sections of the Shellfisheries Council. As of September 2025, the council members included Acting Chair Richard N. Herb, Dr. Eleanor Ann Bochenek, Dr. Patrick Donnelly, Warren Hollinger, Walter L. Johnson III, Jeff Kaelin, Joe Rizzo, Robert R. Rush, Jr., and Kevin Wark, with two vacant seats.
Greg Hueth (obligatory seat) is one of two Members of the federally appointment MAFMC from New Jersey, alongside designated state official Joseph Cimino who is director of New Jersey's Marine Resources Administration. Greg, to my knowledge, isn't on the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council (NJMFC) which I believe is the agency Gerry was referring to in his post.
It's no wonder fisheries management is so screwed up when you consider how it's structured, one layer on top of another. Just like everything else in government, way too many politicians and agencies with everyone trying to skim the cash register while making decisions more beneficial to themselves than the resource they're supposed to be managing.
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That’s the issue with you cut and paste guys . While Nj is lazy updating those pages in FW site .
Those seats were filled , and they had all 11 seated at the April meeting .
Greg told me himself while shad fishing on the Delaware , and Hutch wrote about it in April .
Apparently those seats were directed to be filled months before the remaining red tape was done taking almost another year
In late spring 2024, Governor Phil Murphy nominated Greg Hueth and John Tiedemann to fill vacant seats on the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council. However, as of January 2025, only Tiedemann's nomination had been listed as "considered" by the state Senate.
Status of the nominations
Greg Hueth: Nominated for a sportfishing seat, but as of January 2025, the Senate Judiciary Committee had not confirmed his nomination. Hueth is a head boat captain out of Belmar.
John Tiedemann: Nominated for an "at large" public seat and listed as "considered" by the Senate Judiciary Committee in November 2024. Tiedemann is a professor at Monmouth University
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