News & Announcements

The herring fishery will start the 2023 fishing year under default specifications.

Instructions for vessels planning to fish exclusively west of 71 degrees 30 minutes west longitude.

NOAA Fisheries is implementing Amendment 23.

NOAA Fisheries has revised the at-sea monitoring coverage target to 80 percent of all groundfish sector trips for the rest of 2022 fishing year. This is a decrease from the 99-percent coverage target implemented on May 1, 2022.

Effective December 23, 2022

Effective January 1, 2023

This action implements changes to the commercial and recreational allocations for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass.

Effective November 9, 2022

Effective December 5, 2022

Industry-funded monitoring program coverage will not be assigned to herring vessels. Effective April 1, 2023.