Notices and Rules
Monkfish Fishery: 2019 Specifications
We are implementing specifications for the 2019 monkfish fishery. This action is necessary to ensure allowable monkfish harvest levels that will prevent overfishing and allow harvesting of optimum yield. This action is intended to establish the allowable
Effective
05/01/2019
Northeast Multispecies Fishery: Framework Adjustment 58
This action proposes to approve and implement Framework Adjustment 58 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. This rule would set 2019- 2020 catch limits for 7 of the 20 multispecies (groundfish) stocks, implement new or revised rebuilding
Comments Close
05/06/2019
Non-pollock Trawl Catcher/Processor Halibut Bycatch Handling and Monitoring Requirements
NOAA Fisheries proposes regulations to implement catch handling and monitoring requirements to allow Pacific halibut (halibut) bycatch to be sorted on the deck of trawl catcher/processors and motherships participating in the non-pollock groundfish
Comments Close
05/16/2019
Permanent Advisory Committee to Advise the U.S. Commissioners to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Meeting
NOAA Fisheries announces a public meeting of the Permanent Advisory Committee (PAC) to advise the U.S. Commissioners to the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC) on
Comments Close
06/05/2019
Review of Atlantic HMS Recreational Landings and Bluefin Tuna Catch Reporting Methods
NOAA Fisheries is inviting comments related to a proposed collection of information on recreational catch and bluefin tuna landings. We are particularly interested in comments on:
Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
Comments Close
06/14/2019
Northeast Multispecies Fishery: Witch Flounder Trimester Total Allowable Catch Area Closure for the Common Pool Fishery
This action closes the Witch Flounder Trimester Total Allowable Catch Area to Northeast multispecies common pool vessels fishing with trawl gear through April 30, 2019. The closure is required because the common pool fishery is projected to have caught
Effective
04/12/2019
Amendment 18: Modifying the Shrimp Effort Threshold
This actionwouldadjust the target reduction goal for juvenile red snapper mortality in the federal Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery in the 10-30 fathom depth zone, and would modify the Shrimp Fishery Management Plan management measures framework
Issued
04/11/2019
Abbreviated Framework Amendment 2: Vermilion Snapper and Black Sea Bass
Abbreviated Framework 2 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Regionproposes to adjust the annual catch limits for South Atlantic vermilion snapper and black sea bass in response to the results of the latest
Effective
04/09/2019
Framework Action: Modification to the Recreational Red Snapper Annual Catch Target Buffers & Modification of Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper and West
The actions in these two framework amendments will be combined during the rule making process, allowing the public to see the resulting ACLs and provide comment. The purpose of the framework actions are tomodify the annual catch limits (ACLs) for Gulf
Effective
04/04/2019
Framework Action: Modification to the Recreational Red Snapper Annual Catch Target Buffers
The purpose of this framework is to reduce the federal for-hire component's red snapper annual catch target (ACT) buffer to a level that wouldallow a greater harvest in 2019 while continuing to constrain landings to the for-hire component and total
Effective
04/04/2019