We approved Framework Adjustment 61 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan and are announcing final quotas for fishing year 2021. This action also approves and implements a new universal sector exemption for Acadian redfish.
Today we are announcing, through a final rule, the amount of allocation each sector may carry over from the 2019 to 2020 fishing year, which ends April 30, 2021. This rule also corrects minor errors published in Framework Adjustment 59.
Today we are announcing, through a final rule, the amount of allocation each sector may carry over from the 2019 to 2020 fishing year, which ends April 30, 2021. This rule also corrects minor errors published in Framework Adjustment 59.
NOAA Fisheries, in conjunction with NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, requests that vessels avoid shipwreck sites on southern Stellwagen Bank.
Effective March 11, 2021, NOAA Fisheries increases common pool possession and trip limits for Georges Bank Cod, Gulf of Maine Cod, Gulf of Maine haddock, Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic winter flounder, American plaice, and witch flounder.
NOAA Fisheries is revising the regulations to increase sector carryover of fishing year 2019 ACE for three stocks and allows common pool vessels to carry over unused leased-in in DAS from fishing year 2019.
