International Fisheries Management Agreements

NOAA Fisheries announces the U.S. purse seine fishery in the Effort Limit Area for Purse Seine, or ELAPS, will temporarily reopen for ten calendar days because part of the fishing effort limit remains after the purse seine fishery closure on October 2019.

NOAA Fisheries announces the U.S. purse seine fishery in the area known as the Effort Limit Area for Purse Seine, or ELAPS, will close as a result of reaching the 2019 purse seine fishing effort limit in that area. The ELAPS consists of the areas of the U

NOAA Fisheries is seeking information on nations whose vessels are engaged in illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing, bycatch of protected living marine resource’ (PLMR), and/or fishing activities in waters beyond any national jurisdicti