NFI Crab Council Working Group Reviews FIP Project, Future Projects in Baltimore Meeting
The National Fisheries Institute’s Crab Council met in Baltimore, Maryland on October 5 and 6as part of its working group meeting series.
This marked the first in-person meeting since 2019 where the group created detailed units of assessment, to track Fisheries Improvement Projects (FIP), and endorsed the used of the Spawning Potential Ratio (SPR) method to quantify and monitor progress.
“Our members are committed to crab sustainability and meetings like this illustrate that,” said Ed Rhodes the NFI Crab Council’s Executive Director.
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