Final Fishery Management Plan

For

Atlantic Tuna,

Swordfish,

and Sharks


    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.

 

  

Click on the underlined links below for the desired chapter

Executive Summary

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