November 19, 2020
Effective 0001 November 21, 2020
NOAA Fisheries is closing the commercial blueline tilefish fishery through the end of the fishing year, December 31, 2020.
Landings information analyzed by NOAA Fisheries projects the commercial blueline tilefish fishery will meet 100 percent of the total allowable landings for the 2020 fishing year on November 21, 2020.
Effective at 0001 hour on November 21, 2020, no vessel may retain or land blueline tilefish in or from the Tilefish Management Unit through December 31, 2020.
Study Fleet scientist Calvin Alexander holding a monkfish.
An oceanic whitetip shark swims near the surface of the water. Photo courtesy of John Carlson.
Dense beds of small Atlantic sea scallops photographed on the ocean floor in the Mid-Atlantic in 2015. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
