Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery Reopened

Summary

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act provisions have been updated to reopen a portion of the Georges Bank Closed Area for the harvest of Atlantic surfclams and ocean quahogs, following a request from the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the recent adoption of a testing protocol into the National Shellfish Sanitation Program.