Notices and Rules
Amendment 117 to the FMP for the Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area
Regulations to prohibit directed fishing for the squid species complex by Federally permitted groundfish fishermen, specify a squid retention limit in the Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, and make minor corrections to the octopus species code tables.
Effective
08/06/2018
Amendment 43: Red Snapper Annual Catch Limits
Actions address overfishing of red snapper and recreational reporting.
Amendment
Amendment 43: Red Snapper Annual Catch Limits
Effective
07/26/2018
Regulatory Amendment 4: Spiny Lobster Annual Catch Limits and Targets and Recreational Trap Prohibition in the South Atlantic
This amendment modifies the stock status determination criteria and catch levels for spiny lobster in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic federal waters based on updated information and revised scientific recommendations.
Effective
07/23/2018
Framework Action: Modifications to Mutton Snapper and Gag Management Measures
This framework modifies mutton snapper allowable harvest based on revised scientific recommendations and considers simplified management measures allowing for consistency of mutton and gag regulations between sectors, between state and federal waters, and
Effective
07/23/2018
American Lobster Fishery; Consideration of Expanded Harvester and Biological Sampling Requirements
This notice announces that NOAA Fisheries intends to consider expanded harvester reporting requirements for the American lobster fishery as recommended by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and is soliciting comments. The expanded requirement
Effective
07/16/2018
Reef Fish Amendment 36A: Modifications to Commercial Individual Fishing Quota Programs
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council took final action on Amendment 36A at their April 2017 meeting. The purpose of this action improve compliance and increase management flexibility in the Gulf individual fishing quota (IFQ) programs as well as
Effective
07/12/2018
Amendment 49 to the FMP for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs
Amendment 115 to BSAI Groundfish FMP, 49 to BSAI and Tanner Crab FMP, 105 to GOA Groundfish FMP, 13 to Salmon FMP, 2 to Arctic FMP. These amendments would update the description and identification of essential fish habitat (EFH).
Published
07/05/2018
Golden Tilefish Interim Measures
The proposed temporary measures reduced the golden tilefish annual catch limits (ACL) (total, commercial, and recreational) for 2018. Currently the total ACL for golden tilefish is 558,036 pounds gutted weight (lbs gw). Under the interim
Effective
07/02/2018
Pacific Island Fisheries; Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review; Public Meeting; Correction
NMFS and the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) have rescheduled a Western Pacific Stock Assessment Review (WPSAR) of a draft 2018 benchmark stock assessment for main Hawaiian Islands Kona crab. The meeting announced in the Federal Regis
Effective
06/21/2018
2018 Revision to Technical Guidance for Assessing Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing
Per approval of the Secretary of Commerce, The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the availability of the 2018 Revision (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-59) to its 2016 Technical Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound
Issued
06/20/2018