Activities that may affect a fishery, community, or fishing sector may be reviewed by the Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Council) and be open for public comment. Those EFPs reviewed by the Council are listed below.
Current EFPs
Deep-water Snapper Surveys off Puerto Rico, National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center Panama City, Florida Laboratory
- EFP for NMFS staff or NMFS-contracted observers and commercial fishermen to deploy video cameras and collect deep-water reef fish species in waters of the U.S. exclusive economic zone off Puerto Rico.
Application, May 2021
Federal Register Notice
Fishery Bulletin
Permit, August 2021
Expired EFPs
Deep-water Snapper Surveys off Puerto Rico, National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center Panama City, Florida Laboratory
- EFP for NMFS staff or NMFS contracted commercial fishermen to collect certain deep-water snapper species in waters of the U.S. exclusive economic zone off Puerto Rico.
Application, April 2020
Federal Register Notice
Permit, July 2020
Final Report, October 2021
Deep-water Snapper Surveys off Puerto Rico, National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center Panama City, Florida Laboratory
- EFP for NMFS staff or NMFS contracted commercial fishermen to collect certain deep-water snapper species in waters of the U.S. exclusive economic zone off Puerto Rico.
Application, June 2018
Federal Register Notice
Permit, November 2018
Final Report, September 2020
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Barotrauma expands gasses in a fish causing the air bladder and other organs to expand as well, making it difficult for fish to swim after release. Credit: NOAA Fisheries, Florida SeaGrant
Homeported in Pascagoula, Mississippi, NOAA Ship Pisces is the third in a class of state-of-the-art, acoustically quiet fisheries survey vessels built for a wide range of living marine resource surveys and ecosystem research projects. The ship focuses primarily on U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and South Atlantic to North Carolina. Credit: NOAA
A right whale breaching. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christin Khan
Sunset at a North Carolina beach. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Todd Kellison.