NMFS Closes Commercial Fishing for Atlantic Migratory Group Cobia in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has implemented measures to protect the Atlantic migratory group cobia, a commercially important fish species, by closing the commercial fishing sector in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic from September 5, 2017, until January 1, 2018, due to projected quota exhaustion.