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Recent Regulatory Actions-Fisheries

What's New? (Updated: 8/18/11 )
	Final Rule to Require Use of Weak Hooks in Gulf of Mexico Pelagic Longline Fishery
	Careful Catch and Release Guidelines for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Now Available
	Final Rule to Implement Amendment 4 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan These regulations include a limit on the amount of haddock that can be taken as bycatch in the herring fishery.
	Proposed Rule to Reduce Discards of Highly Migratory Species in Atlantic Trawl Fisheries Comments must be received by April 17, 2011
	Proposed Rule to Require Use of Weak Hooks in Gulf of Mexico Pelagic Longline Fishery Comments must be submitted by February 12, 2011.
	Final Rule to Implement Amendment 17A to the FMP for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region This rule requires, among other things, the use of non-stainless steel circle hooks north of 28° N. latitude (effective March 3, 2011) to reduce discard mortality.
	Final Rule to Implement Amendment 94 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands This regulation requires modified trawl gear to be used in the Bering Sea to reduce potential adverse effects on benthic habitat.
	Final Rule on the Discard Provision for Herring Midwater Trawl Vessels Fishing in Groundfish Closed Area I
	Final Rule to Implement Amendments 20 and 21 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP This rule is designed to, among other things, achieve individual accountability of catch and bycatch.
	Final Rule to Implement Amendment 91 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (8/30/10)
	Notice of Receipt of an Exempted Fishing Permit to Characterize Discard Mortality in the S. Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery (8/18/10)
	Proposed Rule to Implement Amendment 17A to the FMP for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the S. Atlantic Region (8/13/10)
	Proposed Rule to Implement Amendment 94 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (7/15/10)
	Final Rule to Implement the Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Amendment 1 to South Atlantic FMPs (6/22/10)
	Final Rule to Provisionally Recertify Two Bycatch Reduction Devices (5/24/10)
	Proposed Rule to Implement Amendments 20 and 21 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery (6/10/10)
	Final Rule to Implement Amendment 10 to the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish (MSB) FMP (3/11/10)
	Proposed Rule to Implement Amendment 91 to the FMP for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (3/23/10)
	Proposed Rule to Implement Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Amendment for the South Atlantic Region (3/26/10)
	Notice of Availability of Amendment 91 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (2/18/10)
	Notice of Receipt of an Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit to Test Size-Selective Fishing Gear(2/5/10)
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