NMFS Announces Exempted Fishing Permit Application for Snapper and Grouper Off the Southern Atlantic States

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has received an application from the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation, Inc. for an exempted fishing permit (EFP) to collect and retain limited numbers of prohibited snapper and grouper species in the southeastern shrimp fishery, with conditions, in the exclusive economic zone of the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters.