Old Lyme — The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Marine Fisheries Division will host a public hearing of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Draft Addendum XXVI to the summer flounder, scup and black sea bass fishery management plan at 7 p.m. Jan. 6 at marine headquarters, 333 Ferry Road.

The proposal was initiated to consider the continuation of the adaptive regional management approach for the recreational summer flounder as established in Addendum XXV, which allowed for the use of regional management for the 2014 fishing season only, DEEP said in a news release. Regional management measures required states within a region to use the same size limit, bag limit, and season length. Addendum XXV was developed to address a growing concern that summer flounder management measures before 2014 were not providing recreational fishermen along the coast with equitable harvest opportunities to the resource. Its adaptive regional management approach was designed to allow the management program to adjust to past, current, and future changes to the resource and the fishery, DEEP said.

Fishermen and other interested groups are encouraged to provide input on Draft Addendum XXVI either by attending the hearing or providing written comment. The Draft Addendum can be found at: www.asmfc.org, under “Public Input.”

Public comment will be accepted until 5 p.m. Jan. 23 and should be sent to: Kirby Rootes-Murdy, fishery management plan coordinator, 1050 N. Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, Va. 22201; via fax at: (703) 842-0741 (fax) or via email at: krootes-murdy@asmfc.org (subject line: Draft Addendum XXVI). For more information, Rootes-Murdy can also be reached at (703) 842-0740.