National Standards
National Standard Guidelines (.pdf version)
- Conservation and management measures shall
prevent overfishing while achieving on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from each
fishery for the United States fishing industry.
- Conservation and management measures shall be based upon the best
scientific information available.
- To the extent practicable, an individual stock of fish shall be
managed as a unit throughout its range, and interrelated stocks of fish
shall be managed as a unit or in close coordination.
- Conservation and management measures shall
not discriminate between residents of different States. If it becomes necessary to
allocate or assign fishing privileges among various United States fishermen, such
allocation shall be
a. fair and equitable to all such
fishermen
b. reasonably calculated to promote
conservation; and
c. carried out in such manner that no
particular individual, corporation, or other entity acquires an excessive share of such
privileges.
- Conservation and management measures shall,
where practicable, consider efficiency in the utilization of fishery resources; except
that no such measure shall have economic allocation as its sole purpose.
- Conservation and management measures shall
take into account and allow for variations among, and contingencies in, fisheries, fishery
resources, and catches.
- Conservation and management measures shall,
where practicable, minimize costs and avoid unnecessary duplication.
- Conservation and management measures shall,
consistent with the conservation requirements of the Act (including the prevention of
overfishing and rebuilding of overfished stock), take into account the importance of
fishery resources to fishing communities in order to:
a.
provide for the sustained participation of
such communities, and
b. to the extent practicable, minimize adverse
economic impacts on such communities.
- Conservation and management measures shall,
to the extent practicable,
a. minimize bycatch and
b. to the extent bycatch cannot be avoided,
minimize the mortality of such bycatch.
- Conservation and management measures shall,
to the extent practicable, promote the safety of human life at sea.
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