Fishery
Management Plan for
Atlantic Tunas, Swordfish,and Sharks
- Final Version -
Please find below, in files by chapter, the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Atlantic Tuna, Swordfish, and Sharks, highly migratory species (HMS) that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.
NOTE: There may be some minor differences between the layout of the printed version of the HMS FMP and the layout of the .pdf version found at this site. These differences result from the process of formatting documents for the internet. The internet and hard copy versions are otherwise identical.
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These final regulations were published in May 1999. They are available in .pdf format only.
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Description of HMS Fisheries
Chapter 3 - Rebuilding and Maintaining HMS Fisheries
Chapter 4 - Limited Access
Chapter 5 - HMS Habitat Provisions
Chapter 6 - HMS Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Provisions
Chapter 7 - Final Regulatory Impact Review and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Chapter 8 - Revised Final Environmental Impact Review
Chapter 9 - Community Profiles of HMS Fisheries
Appendix I - HMS Advisory Panel Members
Appendix II - Selected ICCAT Management Recommendations and Year Adopted
Appendix III - 1999 General Category Effort Control Specifications for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Appendix IV - Atlantic Sharks: Executive Summary of the 1998 Shark Evaluation Workshop
Appendix V - Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the HMS FMP
Appendix VI - Analyses of Options Considered for the Bluefin Tuna Time/Area Closure
Appendix VII(cover); Appendix VII (language) - ICCAT Bluefin Statistical Document
Appendix VIII - Comments and Responses