Prohibited Species Donation permits authorize tax-exempt organizations to distribute salmon and/or halibut (delivered by catcher vessels using trawl gear to shoreside processors) to hunger relief agencies, food bank networks, or food bank distributors.
More information on the Atlantic Charter/Headboat for Coastal Migratory Pelagics For-Hire Fishing Permit (Open Access) from the Southeast Region Permit Office.
This permit authorizes charter and headboat vessels to take for-hire passengers to recreationally fish for and retain Atlantic highly migratory species using specific gears.
A valid West Coast Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) limited entry permit is required for anyone using purse seine gear for fishing or landing CPS finfish in the limited entry fishery in the Limited Entry Zone.
Fishery Type: Limited access
Harvest
Vessels with any valid commercial permit in the Greater Atlantic Region may possess forage species.
Forage fish are small schooling species that serve as prey for larger commercially and recreationally important fish, as well as for marine mammals
Information about the Gulf Charter/Headboat for Coastal Migratory Pelagic Fish For-Hire Fishing Permit (Limited Access) from the Southeast Region Permit Office.