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Request for Information: Advancing Equity and Environmental Justice in the Southeast Through the Conservation and Management of Living Marine
Through September 30, 2023, NOAA Fisheries requests your input on actions and performance metrics to incorporate into our Southeast Equity and Environmental Justice Implementation Plan
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09/30/2023
Limited Access for the Western Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Trawl Groundfish Fisheries
Control dates that may be used as reference dates for future management actions to limit future access to the offshore sector of the trawl groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Control Date (88 FR 50097, 08/01/2023 )
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Control Date (80 FR 74744, 11/30/2015)
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Control Date (80 FR 72408, 11/19/2015)
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Control Date (78 FR 17340, 03/21/2013)
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10/02/2023
Amendment 15 to the 2006 Consolidated HMS Fishery Management Plan: Spatial Fisheries Management and Electronic Monitoring Cost Allocation
Amendment 15 to the 2006 Consolidated HMS Fishery Management Plan: Spatial Fisheries Management and Electronic Monitoring Cost Allocation
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10/02/2023
Amendment 52: Changes to Catch levels, Allocations, Accountability Measures, and Management Measures for Blueline Tilefish and Golden Tilefish
Amendment 52: Changes to catch levels, allocations, and recreational accountability measures for golden tilefish and to the recreational bag and possession limit and recreational accountability measures for blueline tilefish
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10/02/2023
Federal Register Notices of Proposed and/or Continuing Information Collections as Required by the Paperwork Reduction Act
Public comment periods for proposed new or extensions of existing collections of information in the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
- Alaska Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Charter Extension (88 FR 66817, 9/28/2023)
- NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System Program Extension (88 FR 66816, 9/2…
- Alaska American Fisheries Act Permits Extension (88 FR 66819, 9/28/2023)
- Alaska Region Crab Permits Extension (88 FR 6488, 9/20/2023)
- Alaska Crab Arbitration Extension (88 FR 67711, 9/19/2023)
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10/10/2023
Proposed Rule to Close the Wedge Area within the Massachusetts Restricted Area
NOAA Fisheries is requesting comments on a proposed amendment to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan that would prohibit trap/pot gear fished with buoy lines in the federal waters within new boundaries of the Massachusetts Restricted Area.
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10/18/2023
Amendment 31 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Amendment 31 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP), which proposes to define the geographic units of 20 stocks for 14 species of groundfish, a subset of 80+ species managed by the FMP
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10/22/2023
Proposed Rule Regarding Gold Corals Harvest in the U.S. Pacific Islands
NOAA Fisheries is proposing to extend the 5-year moratorium on the harvest of gold corals in the federal waters across the Pacific Islands region.
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10/23/2023
Proposed Rule for Southern New England Habitat Area of Particular Concern
NOAA is requesting comment on Proposed Rule for Southern New England Habitat Area of Particular Concern
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10/26/2023
Comprehensive Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) Control Rule Amendment: Revisions to the ABC Control Rule and specifications for carry-overs and phase
Comprehensive Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) Control Rule Amendment: Revisions to the ABC Control Rule and specifications for carry-overs and phase-ins
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11/13/2023