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Fishermen win big in Tagging Program drawing
MOREHEAD CITY – Twelve lucky fishermen won $100 each in a recent N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Multi-Species Tagging Program yearly drawing. The tagging program randomly selected tag numbers from more than 930 fish tags that were turned in by fishermen in 2016. Three tag numbers were drawn from each of the four species […]
RE: BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEAN – NORTH OF
Braxton C. Davis, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Friday, April 7, 2017, the following restrictions will apply to the Atlantic Ocean commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15.3’N. Latitude): This proclamation sets the harvest periods and limits for the Atlantic Ocean commercial black […]
NOAA Fishery Announces the Federal Gulf of Mexico Greater Amberjack Recreationa
WHAT/WHEN: Recreational harvest of greater amberjack in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico will close at 12:01 a.m., local time, on March 24, 2017, and will remain closed until January 1, 2018. WHY THIS CLOSURE IS HAPPENING: The 1,255,600-pound whole weight recreational […]
The Gulf Council’s Standing, Reef Fish, Shrimp, and Socioeconomic Scientific and
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a two and one half day meeting of its Scientific and Statistical Committees. The meeting will convene on Monday, March 27, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, from […]
HELP END PILOT CATCH SHARE PROGRAM
This week a decision will be made about whether to put our snapper-grouper fishery into the hands of private ownership or not. The time to take action is now. On Thursday, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will decide whether or not they will support the pilot catch share program Exempted Fishing Permit […]
PERMITS FOR 2017 ARE NOW AVAILABLE
This notice outlines the procedure for obtaining a 2017 Atlantic Tunas Permit, which allows you to commercially fish for and/or retain Atlantic bluefin, yellowfin, skipjack, albacore, and bigeye tunas; a Swordfish General Commercial Permit, which allows you to commercially fish for and/or retain Atlantic Swordfish; an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling Permit, which allows […]
Atlantic bluefin tuna: General category limit & transfer for January 2017
NMFS transfers 16.3 metric tons (mt) of Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) quota from the 24.3-mt General category December 2017 subquota period to the January 2017 subquota period, and adjusts the Atlantic tunas General category BFT daily retention limit from the default of one to three large medium or giant BFT (measuring 73” or greater) per […]
2017 Recreational Atlantic Tunas Retention Limits
Effective January 1, 2017, the bluefin tuna (BFT) daily retention limit is the default limit of 1 school, large school, or small medium BFT (27 to <73"). This default limit applies to both HMS Angling category-permitted vessels and HMS Charter/Headboat category-permitted vessels, and is effective for all areas except the Gulf of Mexico. The recreational […]
Louisiana Sets 2017 Recreational Red Snapper Season
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced the 2017 recreational red snapper fishing season in state waters will begin on February 1, 2017, and remain open until further notice. The season will run seven days a week in state waters with a daily bag and possession limit of two fish per person at a 16-inch […]