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 limited numbers of fish and invertebrates in restricted areas of the South Atlantic Federal waters, with the goal of studying catch and discard mortality in the commercial hook-and-line snapper-grouper fishery.