Fishing & Seafood Permits

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.

This permit is required by anyone using troll or handline gear to fish for pelagic species in the EEZ around the Pacific Remote Island Areas (Palmyra Atoll, Kingman Reef, Jarvis Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Johnston Atoll, and Wake Island). Th

Online Renewal: Yes (via the Southeast Fisheries Permit System) Moratorium: No Logbook Requirements: Yes, this permit requires logbooks.  Click vessel reporting status. Transferrable: No. All open access permits are non-transferrable

Information about the Rock Shrimp Commercial Fishing Permit in the South Atlantic EEZ (Limited Access) from the Southeast Region Permit Office.

Permit Categories Category 1: Commercial (Moratorium) Vessel that fishes for, catches, possesses, transports, lands, sells, or trades scup. In 2017, 598 Category 1 scup permits were issued. The number of permits in the confirmation of permit