Notices and Rules
Final Rule for Electronic Vessel Trip Reporting for Commercial and For-Hire Vessels
NOAA Fisheries is approving a recommendation from both the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils to require federally permitted commercial fishing vessels to submit vessel trip reports electronically within 48 hours of the end of a…
Effective
11/10/2021
Regulatory Amendment 34: Special Management Zones (SMZ)
Regulatory Amendment 34 would establish Special Management Zones (SMZ) at artificial reef sites off the coasts of North Carolina and South Carolina. The framework amendment would establish 30 sites off North Carolina and four off South Carolina. The…
Effective
05/03/2021
Final Rule to Implement 2021 Monkfish Fishing Year Quotas
NOAA Fisheries is implementing monkfish quotas for the 2021 fishing year based on specifications approved by the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils. There were no overages in 2020, and there is no new biological information, so we…
Effective
05/01/2021
Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Fishery and Other Measures for Fishing year 2021
This action implements measures for the Northeast multispecies fishery for the 2021 fishing year. This action is necessary to ensure that the Northeast multispecies common pool fishery may achieve the optimum yield for the relevant stocks, while…
Effective
05/01/2021
Final Rule to Implement 2021 Red Crab Quotas
NOAA Fisheries has finalized the Atlantic deep-sea red crab quota for the 2021 fishing year. The quota for 2021 is 2,000 metric tons, which is the same quota that was approved for the 2020 fishing year.
Effective
04/26/2021
Nominations to the 2021-2023 Permanent Advisory Committee for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
NOAA Fisheries, on behalf of the Secretary of Commerce, is reopening a request for nominations for the advisory committee established under the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Implementation Act. The Permanent Advisory Committee,…
Published
04/26/2021
Proposed Rule to Implement Federal Atlantic Tunas Regulations in Maine State Waters
NOAA Fisheries announces a proposed rule to add Maine to the list of states for which federal Atlantic tunas regulations are applicable within state waters. This action is being considered based on a request by the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
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Issued
04/23/2021
Framework Action: Modification to Gray Triggerfish Catch Limits
This framework and rule would increase the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) gray triggerfish catch limits. The sector allocations of 79% recreational and 21% commercial, and the prior overfishing limit of 1,220,000 lbs whole weight (ww) would remain in effect. …
Comments Close
05/21/2021
Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program in Alaska Federal Register Rules and Notices 2004–Present
Proposed Rule
Proposed rule to revise regulations for the commercial individual fishing quota (IFQ) Pacific halibut (halibut) fisheries for the 2021 IFQ fishing year. This proposed rule would remove limits on the maximum amount of halibut IFQ that…
- Proposed Rule: Request for Comments (86 FR 19207, 04/13/2021)
- Emergency Rule: Temporary Transfers (86 FR 16542, 03/30/2021)
- Temporary Rule: IFQ/CDQ Sablefish Opening (86 FR 13493, 03/09/2021)
- Final Rule: Fish Up Provision (85 FR 44021, 08/20/2020)
- Final Rule: Revised IFQ Regulations (85 FR 41197, 7/8/20)
- Temporary Final Rule: Transfer Provision (85 FR 38100, 06/25/2020)
- Proposed Rule: Fish Up Provision (85 FR 20657, 04/14/2020)
- Temporary Rule: IFQ/CDQ Sablefish Opening (85 FR 15076, 03/17/2020)
- Final Rule: Medical and Beneficiary Transfer (85 FR 8477, 02/14/2020)
- Proposed Rule: Medical and Beneficiary Transfer (84 FR 56991, 10/24/2019)
- Temporary Rule: Opening of Directed Fishing for Sablefish (84 FR 9978, 03/19/20…
- Final Rule; Leasing Halibut IFQ in Areas 4B, 4C, and 4D, Correction, and Clarif…
- Notice of Availability: Hired Masters Analysis (83 FR 15324, 04/10/2018)
- Proposed Rule: Leasing Halibut IFQ in Areas 4B, 4C, and 4D, Correction, and Cla…
- Final rule; Recreational Quota Entity (RQE); Areas 2C and 3A in the Gulf of Ala…
- Proposed Rule; Recreational Quota Entity (RQE); Areas 2C and 3A in the Gulf of …
- Final Rule; Modification to Vessel Ownership Requirement (79 FR 9995, 02/24/201…
- Final Rule:Amendments to the Hired Master Regulations (79 FR 43679, 07/28/2014)
- Proposed Rule; Amendments to Hired Master Regulations (78 FR 24707, 04/26/2013)
- Proposed Regulatory Amendments; Vessel Ownership Requirements (77 FR 65843, 10/…
- Final Rule; Revoke Inactive IFQ Quota Share (77 FR 29556, 05/18/2012)
- Notice of a Public Meeting; Changes to Observer Program (77 FR 22753, 04/17/201…
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (77 FR 14304, 03/09/2012)
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (76 FR 11161, 03/01/2011)
- Proposed Rule; Revoke Inactive IFQ Quota Share (75 FR 51741, 08/23/2010)
- Final Rule Correction to 75 FR 20526 (75 FR 23189, 05/03/2010)
- Final Rule Correction to 73 FR 76136 (75 FR 20526, 04/20/2010)
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (75 FR 11471, 03/11/2010)
- Final Rule; Web-Based Transfers (74 FR 51515, 10/07/2009)
- Proposed Rule; Web-Based Transfers (74 FR 24762, 05/26/2009)
- Final Rule; Limit Harvest of Pacific Halibut by Guided Sport Charter Vessel Ang…
- Proposed Rule; Web-Based Transfers (74 FR 13355, 03/27/2009)
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (74 FR 11881, 03/20/2009)
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (73 FR 9493, 02/21/2008)
- Final Rule; Use of commercial Halibut QS and the Processing of Non-IFQ Species …
- Final Rule; Online Access to IFQ Account Information (73 FR 31646, 06/03/2008)
- Final Rule; Longline Pot Fishing Gear in Bering Sea Sablefish IFQ and CDQ Fishe…
- Proposed Rule; Longline Pot Fishing Gear in Bering Sea Sablefish IFQ and CDQ Fi…
- Final Rule; Revision to Seabird Avoidance Measures (72 FR 71601, 12/18/2007)
- Proposed Rule; Use of Commercial Halibut QS and Processing of Non-IFQ Species W…
- Proposed Rule; Revision to Seabird Avoidance Measures (72 FR 53516, 09/19/2007)
- Final Rule; Modifications to Regulations for Fixed-Gear Commercial Pacific Hali…
- Final Rule; Exclude Tagged Halibut and Tagged Sablefish Catches (71 FR 36489, 0…
- Proposed Rule; Exclude Tagged Halibut and Tagged Sablefish Catches (71 FR 15687…
- Temporary Rule; Announcement of IFQ Sablefish Opening (70 FR 9881, 03/01/2005)
- Final Rule; Allow Quota Share Holders to Fish Their Area 4C IFQ or CDQ in Area …
- Proposed Rule; Allow Quota Share Holders to Fish Their Area 4C IFQ or CDQ in Ar…
- Final Rule; Retain and Land All Demersal Shelf Rockfish (69 FR 68095, 11/23/200…
- Notice of IFQ Sablefish Fishing Season Dates (69 FR 6199, 02/10/2004)
- Proposed Rule: Retention of Rockfish (69 FR 2875, 01/21/2004)
- IFQ Federal Register Rules and Notices 2003-1986
- Catch Sharing Plan and Annual Management Measures
- Halibut and Sablefish IFQ Cost Recovery Program Standard Prices/Fee Percentages
- Fishery Management Plan Amendments
- IFQ Analyses
- IFQ Program
- North Pacific Observer Program
- Seabird Avoidance Gear and Methods
Comments Close
04/28/2021
Federal Register Notices of Proposed and/or Continuing Information Collections as Required by the Paperwork Reduction Act
The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as…
- Alaska Region Logbook and Activity Family of Forms: Comment Period Extension (8…
- American Fisheries Act Reports: Extension of Comment Period (86 FR 8343, 02/05…
- Alaska Crab Arbitration: Extension of Comment Period (86 FR 5142, 01/19/2021)
- IFQ Program Renewal (86 FR 2644, 01/13/2021)
- Chinook Salmon Economic Data Report Program Renewal (86 FR 2646, 01/13/2021)
- Commercial Operator's Annual Report Renewal (86 FR 1943, 01/11/2021)
- Alaska License Limitation Program Extension (85 FR 83518, 12/22/2020)
- Alaska Region Logbook and Activity Family of Forms Extension (85 FR 77176, 12/1…
- Alaska Region Permit Family of Forms Extension (85 FR 76536, 11/30/2020)
- Gulf of Alaska Catcher Vessel and Processor Trawl Economic Data Report Extensio…
- Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System Extension (85 FR 71059, 11/6/202…
- Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements Extension (85 FR 71060, 11/6/…
- Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring Program Extension (85 FR 71057, 11/6/2020)
- Prohibited Species Donation Program Extension (85 FR 67718, 10/26/2020)
- American Fisheries Act Extension (85 FR 66956, 10/21/2020)
- Crab Rationalization Program Arbitration System (85 FR 56583, 09/14/2020)
- LLP for Groundfish, Crab, and Scallops (85 FR 54999, 09/03/2020)
- Alaska Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Subsistence Applications Renewals (85 FR 4586…
- Annual Trawl Catcher/Processor Economic Data Report (85 FR 44524, 07/23/2020)
- Annual Trawl Catcher Vessel Economic Data Report (85 FR 44523, 07/23/2020)
- Annual Registration of Charter Halibut Permits (85 FR 40990, 07/08/2020)
- Prohibited Species Donation Program, (85 FR 37875, 06/24/2020)
- Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System, (85 FR 37877, 06/24/2020)
- Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Program, (85 FR 37879 , 06/24/2020)
- Alaska Region Crab Permits (85 FR 37629, 06/23/2020)
- Alaska Region Scale & Catch Weighing Requirements, (85 FR 36566, 06/17/2020)
- Subsistence Halibut Renewal (85 FR 13139, 03/06/2020)
- Crab Rationalization Program Extension (85 FR 6915, 02/06/2020)
- Charter Halibut Revision/Extension (85 FR 10413, 02/24/2020)
- Alaska Gear Identification (85 FR 10152, 02/21/2020)
- Halibut Catch Handling and Monitoring Information Collection Requirements (85 F…
- Community Development Quota (CDQ) Extension (85 FR 1803, 1/13/2020)
- American Fisheries Act (AFA) Extension (85 FR 1804, 1/13/2020)
- Alaska Council Cooperative Annual Reports (84 FR 67432, 12/10/2019)
- Gear Identification Requirements (84 FR 61598, 11/13/2019)
- Intent to Process Aleutian Islands Pacific Cod (84 FR 60057, 11/07/2019)
- American Fisheries Act Information Collection Extension (84 FR 53106, 10/04/20…
- Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program Revision and Extension (84 FR 52872, …
- Annual Notification to Process Pacific Cod (84 FR 44286, 08/23/2019)
- Alaska Council Cooperative Annual Reports (84 FR 35099, 7/22/2019)
- Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Economic Data Reports (84 FR 27766, 06/14/…
- Community Quota Entity (CQE) Program Extension (84 FR 11751, 03/28/2019)
- Amendment 80 Program Extension and Revision (84 FR 10796, 03/22/2019)
- Economic Data Report Renewal (84 FR 8307, 03/07/2019)
Comments Close
05/10/2021