Fishing & Seafood Permits

Information about the Live Rock Aquaculture Commercial Fishing Permit (Open Access) from the Southeast Region Permit Office.

Permit categories for mackerel, squid, and butterfish

Description of monkfish permit categories and issuance.

Groundfish Categories There are two categories of Northeast groundfish: Those requiring regulated mesh: Cod, haddock, yellowtail flounder, pollock, redfish (ocean perch), winter flounder (blackback), American plaice (dab), witch flounder (grey sole)

Permit information for the Northeast skate complex fishery.

This permit is required for any vessel commercially fishing for, landing, or transshipping bottomfish management unit species in the Exclusive Economic Zone around the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The permit expires one year after the dat

The Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative Program assigns quota share to License Limitation Program licenses for Pacific cod based on legal landings associated with that License Limitation Program.

Pacific Halibut Permits

Permit information for commercial fishing in the West Coast EEZ (California, Washington, Oregon) for Pacific tunas, swordfish, sharks, and billfish.

This permit is required by anyone using bottomfish gear to fish for bottomfish management unit species in the EEZ around the Pacific Remote Island Areas.