Notices and Rules
Amendment 29 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan & 2021-2022 Harvest Specifications and Management Measures
Amendment 29 of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan.
Effective
Final Rule to Delay Implementation of West Coast Groundfish Electronic Monitoring Program
Final rule to delay implementation of West Coast groundfish electronic monitoring until January 2022.
Effective
Proposed Rule to Delay Implementation of West Coast Groundfish Electronic Monitoring Program
Proposed rule for Electronic Monitoring (EM) Program for the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program.
Published
Regulatory Revisions to Vessel Movement, Monitoring, and Declaration Management for the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
Final rule revising reporting and monitoring provisions for vessels participating in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery., effective July and September 2020.
Effective
Inseason Adjustments to Pacific Coast Groundfish Commercial Fisheries; halibut retention limit decrease
Final rule announcing a decrease in the incidental halibut retention limit for the sablefish primary fishery north of Point Chehalis, Washington, Pacific coast.
Effective
Correction to Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 2019-2020 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments
Notice of correction to routine inseason adjustments to management measures in commercial groundfish fisheries. This action corrects publication errors in the trip limit tables for non-individual fishing quota species and limited entry fixed gear vessels that were implemented through the final rule.
Effective
Amendment 21-4 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Final rule for Amendment 21-4, implementing changes to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch Share Program, which established an individual fishing quota system for vessels catching groundfish with trawl gear.
Effective
Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures
Final rule for 2019–2020 Pacific Coast groundfish fishery biennial adjustments.
Effective
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Seabird Bycatch Avoidance Measures
Final rule describing requirements for seabird bycatch avoidance measures for commercial groundfish bottom longline vessels.
Published
Pacific Coast Groundfish Buyback
Congress authorized a $46 million buyback program, of which $10 million was appropriated and the remainder to be financed under Title XI.
- Notice of Fee Rate Decrease (84 FR 67723, 12/11/2019)
- Fee Rate Adjustment Notice (83 FR 62308, 12/03/18)
- Fee Rate Adjustment Notice (82 FR 60969, 12/26/17)
- Washington Dungeness Crab Notice of Loan Repayment (82 FR 11559, 2/24/17)
- California Pink Shrimp Notice of Loan Repayment (81 FR 67295, 9/30/16)
Published