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
Amendment 2 to the Island-based Fishery Management Plans: Trawl and Net Gear and Descending Devices
Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Trawl and Net Gear and Descending Devices
Published
Amendment 3 to the Island-based 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
2024 Specifications for the Golden Tilefish and Blueline Tilefish Fisheries
NOAA Fisheries Announces 2024 Golden and Blueline Tilefish Fishery Specifications
Effective
Tori Line Requirement for Stern-Setting Vessels in Hawaiʻi Deep-Set Longline Fishery
NOAA Fisheries is replacing blue-dyed bait and strategic offal discharge requirements with a new tori line (bird-scaring streamer) requirement. The rule applies to Hawaiʻi longline vessels that stern-set above 23° N latitude.
Effective
2024–2026 Marine Conservation Plan for Guam; Western Pacific Sustainable Fisheries Fund
NOAA Fisheries announces the approval of a 2024–2026 Marine Conservation Plan for Guam.
Published
Framework Adjustment 66 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan
We are proposing Framework Adjustment 66 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The action would set specifications for 8 stocks and modify some accountability measure triggers.
Comments Close
Framework Adjustment 38 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan
Framework 38 establishes scallop specifications and other measures for fishing years 2024 and 2025, including changes to the catch, effort, and quota allocations and adjustments to the rotational area management program.
Published
Regulatory Amendment to the Trade Monitoring Program for Toothfish
NOAA Fisheries releases a final rule to remove a specific import prohibition on toothfish catches from the high seas areas of the Indian Ocean and make updates to the regulation that implements conservation measures adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Published
NOAA Fisheries Implements the Prohibition of Commercial Fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument
NOAA Fisheries Implements the Prohibition of Commercial Fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument
Effective