US Fisheries Agency Reduces Trip Limits and Gear Modifications for Northeast Multispecies Fishery

Summary

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has implemented changes to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, reducing the daily catch limits for Gulf of Maine cod, Georges Bank yellowtail flounder, and white hake, while expanding trawl gear restrictions and authorizing the use of a rope separator trawl in the Western U.S./Canada Area for the remainder of the 2010 fishing year.