Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council
Rm. 2115, Frear Federal Building
300 South New Street
Dover, Delaware 19904-6790
Telephone: 302 674-2331   Telefax: 302 674-5399
 
Meeting Schedule - 1998
 
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12/16/97 12/18/97 Dunes Manor Ocean City Maryland
01/27/98 01/29/98 Sheraton Atlantic City West Atlantic City New Jersey
03/10/98 03/12/98 Wyndham Hotel Annapolis Maryland
04/21/98 04/23/98 Hilton (I 95 & Naaman's Rd) Wilmington Delaware
06/02/98 06/04/98 Ramada Inn New Bern North Carolina
08/17/98 08/19/98 Holiday Inn Independence Mall Philadelphia Pennsylvania
10/05/98 10/08/98 Holiday Inn Essington Pennsylvania
11/04/98 11/06/98 Airport Hilton Norfolk Virginia
12/15/97 12/17/97 New York City New York
 
The Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council has the primary responsibility for managing the fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (from 3 to 200 miles out) in the region off the states of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. Voting members are from these six states plus Pennsylvania and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The fisheries management plans that the Mid-Atlantic Council has primary responsibility for are Scup, Sea Bass, Summer Flounder, Surf Clams/Ocean Quahogs, Squid/Mackerel/Butterfish, and Bluefish. 
 
COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP

New York:  
Gordon Colvin, Dir., Div. of Mar. Res., NY Dept of Env. Cons., 205 Belle Meade Rd., East Setauket, NY 11733 (516--444-0430)  
Anthony DiLernia, Office of Marine Ed, Kingsborough Community College Manhattan Beach, NY 11235 (718-368-4558)  
Robert Hamilton, Jr., 527 Main Street, Greenport, NY 11944 (516-477-0243)  

New Jersey:  
Charles Bergmann, Lund's Fisheries, Cape May, NJ 08204 (609-729-9050)  
Gary Caputi, 1800 Bay Ave., Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08724 (908--840-4900)  
Robert McDowell, Dir., Div. of Fish, Game & Wildlife, Dep. of Env. Prot., CN400, Trenton, NJ 08625 (609-292-9410)  
Robert J. Rhodes, 5 Rita Dr., Howell, NJ 07731 (908-751--0591)  

Pennsylvania: 
Peter Colangelo, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, P.O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, PA 17106 (717-657-4515)  
Alan D. Weiss, Blue Water Fishing Tackle, 211 Boro Line Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406 (610-337-7210)  

Delaware:  
John C. Bryson, 40 McBry Drive, Dover, DE 19901 (302-678--3294)  
Richard Cole, Div. of Fish & Wildlife, DNREC, 89 Kings Highway, P.O. Box 1401, Dover, DE 19903 (302-739-4782)  
Dr. Nancy M. Targett, College of Marine Studies, U of Delaware, Lewes, DE 19958 (302-645-4262)  

Maryland:  
Dr. James H. Gilford, 7003 Glen Court, Frederic, MD 21702 (301-663-3966)  
W. Peter Jensen, Tawes State Office Building, 580 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401 (410-260-8261)  
Rick E. Savage, 11824 Porfin Drive, Berlin, MD 21811 (410--749-9226)  

Virginia: 
Dr. Gordon L. Brady, 1405 Whitley Drive, Vienna, VA 22182 (703-759-1104)  
William A Pruitt, Commissioner, Marine Resources Commission, P.O. Box 756, Newport News, VA 23607 (757-247-2200)  
James E. Douglas, Jr., 126 Sloane Place, Newport News, VA 23606 (757-930-8213)  

North Carolina: 
Dennis Spitsbergen, Div. of Marine Fisheries, NC Dept.of Nat. Res., and Community Development, PO Box 769, Morahead City, NC 28557 (919-726-7021)  

National Marine Fisheries Service: 
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, Regional Adm., Northeast Region, NMFS, 1 Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930 (508-281--9250)