NOAA Fisheries is implementing herring fishery specifications for 2023-2025, effective March 23, 2023. This action also makes several additional revisions to herring regulations.
NOAA Fisheries announces a preliminary at-sea monitoring coverage target for fishing year 2023 of 90 percent of all groundfish sector trips subject to the at-sea monitoring program.
If you intend to fish for lobsters in federal waters with trap gear during the 2023 fishing year, you must renew your federal lobster permit and order lobster trap tags.
This rule modifies regulations to add the Omega net mesh measurement gauge as a permissible device for net mesh measurement and to correct regulatory references to gear restrictions.
The Closed Area I Scallop Access Area is closed to all federally permitted Limited Access General Category (LAGC) vessels effective 0001 hr on January 14, 2023.
Today we are announcing, through a final rule, the amount of allocation each sector may carry over from fishing year 2021 to fishing year 2022, which ends April 30, 2023.
