Handel i gospodarka · 12.12.1994

Northeast Multispecies Fishery

NMFS, by emergency interim rule, amends the regulations implementing the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This emergency rule implements a simultaneous closure of redefined Closed Area I, the Nantucket Lightship Closed Area, and Closed Area II; a prohibition on scallop vessels in the closed areas; a disallowance of any fishery utilizing mesh smaller than the minimum mesh size allowed for regulated species, with the exception of fisheries that have been determined to have a catch of less than 5 percent by weight of regulated species; a prohibition on the possession of regulated species while fishing with small mesh; a requirement that all mobile gear vessels fishing in the Stellwagen Bank and Jeffreys Ledge areas, with the exception of mid-water trawl vessels, use 6-inch (15.24-cm) square mesh codends; and an increase in the minimum mesh size in the Southern New England and Nantucket Lightship Regulated Mesh Areas to 6-inch (15.24-cm) diamond or square mesh.