Notices and Rules
2025-2026 Commercial Fishing Restrictions for Pacific Bluefin Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Catch limits in 2025-2026 for Pacific bluefin tuna in the eastern Pacific ocean
Comments Close
01/29/2025
2025 Pacific Halibut Recreational Fishery
Management measures for the 2025 recreational fisheries and updates to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for regulatory Area 2A
Comments Close
01/27/2025
Amendment 33 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: 2025-2026 Groundfish Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 33 of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan, 2025-2026 harvest specifications
Published
12/16/2024
Fish Aggregating Device Design and Reporting Requirements in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Regulations for the design of fish-aggregating devices in the eastern Pacific Ocean, including reporting requirements
Published
12/06/2024
Fishing Restrictions for Tropical Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for 2025 and Beyond
Fishing Restrictions for Tropical Tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for 2025 and Beyond
Published
12/05/2024
2024–2025 Annual Specifications and Management Measures for Pacific Sardine
Harvest specifications and management measures for Pacific sardine for July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025
Published
11/27/2024
Amendment 8 Revisions to Essential Fish Habitat in the Fishery Management Plan for U.S. West Coast Highly Migratory Species
Amendment to update EFH provisions in the existing HMS FMP for three species of pelagic shark, five species of tunas, striped marlin, swordfish, and dolphinfish
Published
10/28/2024
Amendment 34 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: Groundfish Exclusion Area for Coral Research and Restoration
Amendment to modify groundfish exclusion areas
Published
10/23/2024
Measures to Keep Fishery Impacts within the Conservation Objective for the California Coastal Chinook Salmon
harvest management measures to ensure that ocean salmon fisheries are managed to promote the conservation of the CC Chinook ESU
Effective
09/13/2024
Fisheries off West Coast States; the Highly Migratory Species Fishery; El Nino Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area Reopening
Temporary rule; reopening of June 1, 2024 closure of a portion of the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area to drift gillnet fishing
Effective
08/01/2024