Regulatory Amendment 28: Golden Tilefish Annual Catch Limits
Regulatory Amendment 28ends overfishing of golden tilefish by reducing the total annual catch limit (ACL) to 342,000 lb. The commercial and recreational sector ACLs and component commercial quotas are specified using existing sector allocations of 97...
Effective
01/04/2019
Loggerhead Interactions in the Hawaii Shallow-set Pelagic Longline Fishery
This final rule revises from 34 to 17 the annual number of allowableincidental interactions that may occurbetween the Hawaii shallow-set pelagiclongline fishery and North Pacificloggerhead sea turtles, in compliancewith an order of the U.S. District Court,District...
Effective
01/01/2019
Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fisheries: 2019 Fishing Quotas and Suspension of Minimum Atlantic Surfclam Size Limit
NOAA Fisheries suspends the minimum size limit for Atlantic surfclams for the 2019 fishing year. NOAA Fisheries also announces that the quotas for the Atlantic surfclam and ocean quahog fisheries for 2019 will remain status quo. Regulations governing these...
Effective
01/01/2019
Fishing Capacity Reduction Program for the Longline Catcher Processor Subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Non-Pollock Groundfish Fishery
Notice to increase the fee rate for the non-pollock groundfish fishery to repay the $35,000,000 reduction loan to finance the non-pollock groundfish fishing capacity reduction program.
In 2012, NOAA Fisheries established regulations to implement a second...
- Notice of Fee Rate Increase (83 FR 63833, 12/12/2018)
- Notice of Fee Rate Increase (83 FR 793, 01/08/2018)
- Final Rule (77 FR 58775, 09/24/2012)
- Proposed Rule (77 FR 44572, 07/30/2012)
- Notice to Decrease Fee Rate (76 FR 74048, 11/30/2011)
- Final Rule (72 FR 54219, 09/24/2007)
- Proposed Rule (72 FR 39779, 07/20/2007)
- Final Rule (71 FR 57695, 09/29/2006)
- Proposed Rule (71 FR 46363, 08/11/2006)
- Notice of Advanced Proposed Rulemaking (71 FR 8269, 02/16/2006)
Published
12/12/2018
Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Cost Recovery Program Standard Prices and Fee Percentages
NOAA Fisheries publishes the individual fishing quota standard prices and fee percentage for cost recovery for the IFQ Program for the halibut and sablefish fisheries of the North Pacific. This action is intended to provide holders of halibut and sablefish...
- 2018 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (83 FR 63834, 12/12/2018)
- 2017 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (82 FR 60379, 12/20/2017)
- 2016 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (81 FR 89900, 12/13/2016)
- 2015 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (80 FR 78172, 12/16/2015)
- 2014 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (79 FR 73045, 12/09/2014)
- 2013 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (78 FR 72869, 12/04/2013)
- 2012 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (77 FR 71783, 12/04/2012)
- 2011 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (76 FR 77209, 12/12/2011)
- 2010 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (75 FR 76957, 12/10/2010)
- 2009 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (74 FR 65741, 12/11/2009)
- 2008 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (73 FR 73908, 12/04/2008)
- 2007 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (72 FR 70570, 12/12/2007)
- 2006 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (71 FR 78383, 12/29/2006)
- Final Rule to Amend Program (71 FR 44231, 08/04/2006)
- Proposed Rule to Amend Program (71 FR 26728, 05/08/2006)
- Correction to 2005 standard prices (71 FR 3429, 01/23/2006)
- 2005 Standard Prices (70 FR 74208, 12/15/2005)
- 2003 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (68 FR 71036, 12/22/2003)
- 2002 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (67 FR 76998, 12/16/2002)
- 2001 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (66 FR 64915, 12/17/2001)
- Correction to Final Rule (66 FR 13672, 03/07/2001)
- 2000 Standard Prices and Fee Percentage (65 FR 76578, 12/07/2000)
- Final Rule to Implement Program (65 FR 14919, 03/20/2000)
- Correction (65 FR 11756, 03/06/2000)
- Proposed Rule to Implement Program (64 FR 72302, 12/27/1999)
Effective
12/12/2018
2018 U.S. Territorial Longline Bigeye Tuna Catch Limits for American Samoa
NOAA Fisheries announces a valid specified fishing agreement that allocates up to 1,000 metric tons (t) of the 2018 bigeye tuna limit for the Territory of American Samoa to identified U.S. longline fishing vessels. The agreement supports the long-term sustainability...
Published
12/10/2018
Implementation of Fish and Fish Product Import Provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act-Notification of Comparability Findings
Under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the NMFS Assistant Administrator for Fisheries (Assistant Administrator) has issued comparability findings for the Government of Mexico's following fisheries: Upper Gulf of California shrimp...
Published
12/06/2018
2019-2020 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications
NOAA Fisheries proposes 2019 and 2020 harvest specifications, apportionments, and prohibited species catch allowances for the groundfish fishery of the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. This action is necessary to establish harvest limits...
Comments Close
01/07/2019
Regulatory Amendment 26: Vision Blueprint Recreational Measures
Vision Blueprint Regulatory Amendment 26 to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Snapper Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (Regulatory Amendment 26) addresses specific action items in the 2016-2020 Vision Blueprint for the Recreational Sector...
Issued
12/05/2018
Fishing Capacity Reduction Program for the Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery
NOAA Fisheries issues this notice to inform persons of their eligibility to vote and the voting period for the proposed second fishing capacity reduction program loan in the Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery. This notice informs the public of the...
- Notice of Eligible Voters; Referendum Voting Period (83 FR 62302, 12/03/2018)
- Notice of Unsuccessful Referendum (82 FR 10746, 02/15/2017)
- Notice of Eligible Voters/Public Meetings (81 FR 78123, 11/07/2016)
- Notice of Decreased Fee Rate (80 FR 28608, 05/19/2015)
- Notice of Decreased Fee Rate (78 FR 33810, 06/05/2013)
- Notice of Reduction Payment Tender (77 FR 26744, 05/07/2012)
- Notice of Voting Period (77 FR 19004, 03/29/2012)
- Notice of Eligibility to Vote (77 FR 12568, 03/01/2012)
- Final Rule to Implement Fishing Capacity Reduction Program (76 FR 61985, 10/06/2011)
- Proposed Rule to Implement Fishing Capacity Reduction Program (76 FR 29707, 05/23/2011)
Comments Close
01/02/2019