Notices and Rules
Final Rule to Implement 2024 Monkfish Fishing Year Quotas
NMFS is implementing specifications for the 2024 monkfish fishery. This action is necessary to ensure allowable monkfish harvest levels that will prevent overfishing and allow harvesting of optimum yield.
Effective
05/01/2024
Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Fishery and Other Measures for Fishing Year 2024
This action implements measures for the Northeast multispecies fishery for fishing year 2024, including common pool fishery possession and trip limits.
Effective
05/01/2024
Framework Amendment 2: Updates to the Spiny Lobster Overfishing Limit, Acceptable Biological Catch, and Annual Catch Limit
Generic Framework Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Updates to the Spiny Lobster Overfishing Limit, Acceptable Biological Catch, and Annual Catch Limit
Published
04/30/2024
Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Trawl, Net Gear, and Descending Devices
Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Trawl, Net Gear, and Descending Devices
Published
04/23/2024
Amendment 3 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Management Measures for Dolphin and Wahoo
Amendment 3 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Management Measures for Dolphin and Wahoo
Published
04/23/2024
2024 Closure of the Northern Gulf of Maine Scallop Fishery
This temporary rule closes the Northern Gulf of Maine scallop fishery 00:01 on April 20, 2024 until March 31, 2025.
Effective
04/20/2024
2024 Specifications for the Golden Tilefish and Blueline Tilefish Fisheries
NOAA Fisheries Announces 2024 Golden and Blueline Tilefish Fishery Specifications
Effective
04/19/2024
2024-2026 Specifications for the Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery Management Plan
This rule proposes to set the 2024 Illex squid and 2024-2026 longfin squid specifications and reaffirms the 2024 chub mackerel and butterfish specifications.
Comments Close
05/20/2024
Essential Fish Habitat 5-Year Review
Essential Fish Habitat 5-Year Review
Published
04/18/2024
Gulf of Mexico Lane Snapper Catch Limits Abbreviated Framework
This Abbreviated Framework would increase the Gulf lane snapper overfishing limit to 1,116,331 pounds (lb) whole weight (ww), and the acceptable biological catch and annual catch limit from 1,029,973 lb ww to 1,088,873 lb ww.
Effective
04/15/2024