2013 Northeast Region Bulletins (Permit Holder Letters)
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January
- 01/18/2013
- Reminder to Northeast Sink Gillnet Fisheries of Coastal Gulf of Maine Closure in February 2013
- 01/15/2013
- 2013 Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Specifications
- 01/14/2013
- Atlantic mackerel fishery limited access program application deadline reminder
- 01/07/2013
- Clarification of the Turtle Deflector Dredge (TDD) Design Requirements
- 01/03/2013
- 2013 Commercial Quotas and Recreational Harvest Limits for Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass
February
- 02/25/2013
- Atlantic Herring Fishery Preliminary 2013 Specifications and Reduction in Area 1A Quota; Effective Date: March 27, 2013
- 02/20/2013
- NE Multispecies Vessels - Extension of the Day-At-Sea Leasing Deadline
- 02/14/2013
- NOAA Fisheries offers new option in SAFIS to receive correspondence by email
- 02/12/2013
- Northeast multispecies announcement of approved dockside and at-sea monitoring providers for 2013. Effective Date: May 1, 2013
- 02/11/2013
- Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Vessels Trip Limit Adjustments for Five Stocks - Effective Date: February 11, 2013, through April 30, 2013
- 02/11/2013
- Atlantic Sea Scallop Management Measures for Fishing Year 2013, Effective Date: March 1, 2013
- 02/07/2013
- Scallop Full-Time Vessel Access Area Trip Assignments for Fishing Year 2013 - Effective Date: March 1, 2013
- 02/04/2013
- Lobster Trap Tag Ordering Instructions for the 2013 Fishing Year (May 1, 2013 – April 30, 2014)
March
- 03/19/2013
- FY 2013 Observer Set-Aside Compensation Rate for Full-Time Limited Access Scallop Vessels
- 03/14/2013
- Fish-On-Line Login Instructions
- 03/05/2013
- Revisions to the Butterfish Mortality Cap Allocation and Butterfish Mortality Cap Methodology; Effective Date: March 5, 2013
- 03/01/2013
- NOAA Fisheries Approves Groundfish Sector Trawl Vessel Exemption to Target Redfish with 4.5” Codend Mesh. Effective Date: February 28, 2013
April
- 04/30/2013
- Multispecies sector operations plans interim final rule partially approves operations plans and grants 23 regulatory exemptions for 17 fishing sectors for fishing year 2013
- 04/30/2013
- Framework 48 contains measures to enhance fishing opportunities for groundfish vessels to mitigate potential negative economic impacts from reductions in catch limits for 2013
- 04/30/2013
- Framework 50 implements catch limits for groundfish stocks for 2013 through 2015, as well as catch limits for the U.S./Canada stocks for 2013
- 04/30/2013
- Final 2013-2015 Fishery Specifications for the Spiny Dogfish Fishery
- 04/16/2013
- Limited Access Monkfish Permit Category C and D Vessels; Trip Limit Suspension in the Northern Fishery Management Area; Effective Date: May 1, 2013
- 04/05/2013
- Multispecies Amendment 19; Updated management measures for the small-mesh multispecies (or whiting) fishery
- 04/04/2013
- Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Area 2 Closure; Herring Catch Limited To 2,000 Lb Per Trip/Day; Effective Date: April 7, 2013
May
- 05/16/2013
- Fishery Management Action Team Meeting Notice on Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology
- 05/16/2013
- An Open Letter to Federal Fishery Permit Holders in the Northeast Regarding Observers and At-Sea Monitors
- 05/16/2013
- Establishment of a Control Date in the Longfin squid fishery; Effective Date: May 16, 2013
- 05/08/2013
- Scallop 2013 Fishing Year Allocations Information Sheet
- 05/08/2013
- Yellowtail Flounder Accountability Measures in the Scallop Fishery Fact Sheet
- 05/08/2013
- New Framework 24 Management Measures for the Atlantic Sea Scallop Limited Access General Category Vessels and Updated Allocations for the Remainder of the 2013 Fishing Year. Effective Date: May 20, 2013
- 05/08/2013
- Updated Allocations for the Atlantic Sea Scallop Limited Access Vessels for the Remainder of the 2013 Fishing Year. Effective Date: May 20, 2013
- 05/06/2013
- New Spiny Dogfish Exemption Areas East and West of Cape Cod
- 05/06/2013
- Atlantic Bluefish 2013 and 2014 Final Specifications
June
- 06/27/2013
- Groundfish Dealers; Reminder that some groundfish minimum sizes decrease as of July 1, 2013
- 06/20/2013
- 2013 Summer Flounder, Scup, And Black Sea Bass Fisheries Recreational Harvest Measures & 2013 Black Sea Bass Specifications Increase; Effective date: June 20, 2013
- 06/12/2013
- Updated Annual Catch Limits for Sectors and the Common Pool for Fishing Year 2013 for NE Multispecies Limited Access Permit Holders
July
- 07/31/2013
- Days-At-Sea (DAS) Permit Holders; Procedures for Good Samaritan DAS Credit Request
- 07/30/2013
- Closure of the Georges Bank Trimester Total Allowable Catch Area Effective: July 30 through August 31, 2013
- 07/16/2013
- Northeast Multispecies Trip Limit Adjustment for the Common Pool Fishery
- 07/10/2013
- NE Multispecies Fishing Vessels; Changes to Eastern U.S./Canada Area Quota Monitoring Catch Apportioned by Areas Fished
- 07/02/2013
- Prohibition on Possessing More Than 50 Buhels of In-Shell Scallops Inside the Demarcation Line
August
- 08/28/2013
- Trip Limit Adjustments for Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder and Gulf of Maine Haddock
- 08/21/2013
- Northern Red Hake Possession Limit Reduction; Effective Date: August 26, 2013
- 08/20/2013
- Massachusetts Summer Flounder Fishery Closure. Effective Date: August 23, 2013
- 08/15/2013
- Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery; Reopening an additional portion of the Georges Bank Closed Area
- 08/13/2013
- Tilefish Permit Holders; Change to Regulations Corrections and Clarifications to Tilefish Regulations; Effective Date: September 12, 2013
- 08/07/2013
- Winter II Period Scup Quota and Possession Limit Increase; Effective Date: November 1, 2013
- 08/02/2013
- Illex Squid Moratorium Permit Holders; Establishment of a Control Date in the Illex Squid Fishery
September
- 09/30/2013
- Atlantic Herring 2013 through 2015 Specifications and Framework 2 Measures
- 09/27/2013
- New York Summer Flounder Fishery Closure - Effective Date: October 1, 2013
- 09/20/2013
- Multispecies sector at-sea monitoring provider applications for fishing year 2014 are due November 4, 2013
- 09/03/2013
- Change to Days-at-Sea Program Point of Contact and Information Hotline
October
- 10/31/2013
- Northeast Multispecies Common Pool Vessels - Trip Limit Increases for Five Stocks
- 10/25/2013
- Tilefish Fishery 2014 Quota Specifications
- 10/23/2013
- Limited Access Monkfish Permit Category C and D Vessels - Landing Limit Suspension in the Northern Fishery Management Area
- 10/22/2013
- All Northeast fisheries now authorized to use electronic vessel reporting
- 10/21/2013
- Herring Fishery Management Area 3 to Close on October 24
- 10/11/2013
- Closure of Atlantic Herring Fishery in Area 1A-Effective Tuesday October 15th
December
- 12/26/2013
- Emergency PSP Closure for Whelk Harvesting
- 12/26/2013
- Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Fishery Measures for the 2014 Fishing Year
- 12/17/2013
- Closing of the Gulf of Maine haddock Trimester Total Allowable Catch Area for Trimester 3, from January 1, 2014, through April 30, 2014, to common pool vessels
- 12/17/2013
- New Jersey Summer Flounder Fishery Closure Effective December 17, 2013
- 12/13/2013
- NOAA Fisheries Approves Exemption Allowing Groundfish Sector Vessels into Portions of the Nantucket Lightship Year-Round Closed Area. Effective Date: December 31, 2013
- 12/12/2013
- Important Reminder to Limited Access General Category Scallop IFQ Permit Holders about managing your vessel’s IFQ
- 12/06/2013
- New Jersey Summer Flounder Fishery Open Effective December 6, 2013
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