FEDERAL REGISTER ACTIONS
NMFS Northeast Region
Year 2001
November 2001
October 2001
- Notice - Suspension of Surf Clam Minimum Size Limit
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- Proposed Rule - Proposed 2002 Specifications for the Atlantic Herring Fishery - Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 11/28/2001.
- Proposed Rule - Proposed 2002 Specifications for the Atlantic Surfclams, Ocean Quahogs, and Maine Mahogany Ocean Quahogs Fisheries - Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 11/23/2001.
- Proposed Rule - Proposed 2002 Specifications for the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and, Butterfish Fisheries - Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 11/23/2001.
- Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Framework 36 to the Northeast Multispecies FMP - Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before 5 p.m., local time, November 5, 2001
September 2001
- Change in date, time, & location of public scoping meeting & extension of public comment period for Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the for the EFH Components of the Monkfish, Atlantic Herring and Atlantic Salmon FMPs, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before November 21, 2001
- Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the for the EFH Components of the Monkfish, Atlantic Herring and Atlantic Salmon FMPs, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before November 9, 2001
- Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the American Lobster Fishery, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. on or before October 24, 2001
- Proposed Rule - Delay of the Implementation Date of the Year-4 Default Management Measures for Small-Mesh Multispecies, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before October 17, 2001
- Notice - Implementation of Conditional Closures in the Gulf of Maine
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- Notice - Corrected Adjustments to the 2001 Commercial Quotas for Summer Flounder, Scup, & Black Sea Bass
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August 2001
July 2001
- Final Rule - 2001 Recreational Summer Flounder, Scup, & Black Sea Bass Specifications
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- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (ECTA), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before August 13, 2001
- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (UNH), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before August 13, 2001
- Interium Rule - Atlantic Deep-Sea Red Crab, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5 pm local time on August 22, 2001
- Final Rule - 2001 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quota Specifications and General Category Effort Controls
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- Black Sea Bass Fishery; Commercial Quota Harvested for Quarter 3 Period
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- Notice & Request for Sea Scallop Research Proposals; Correction
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- Final Rule - Summer Flounder Fishery; Framework 2
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- Final Rule Correction, 2001 Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, & Butterfish Fisheries
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June 2001
May 2001
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, American Lobster Fishery - Request for Comments
___- Written comments must be received no later than 5 pm, EST, on or before June 25, 2001
- Notice of Solicitation for Applications - Request for Sea Scallop Research Proposals
___- FY 2001 proposals must be received no later than 5 pm, EST, on June 19, 2001; FY 2002 proposals must be received no later than 5 pm, EST, on November 1, 2001
- Notice - Closure of Loligo Squid Fishery
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- Proposed Rule - Recreational Measures for the 2001 Summer Flounder, Scup, & Black Sea Bass Fisheries, Request for Comments
___- Public comments must be received on or before June 11, 2001
- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications for Atlantic Herring
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- Notice - Temporary Whale Protection Zone in Wilkinson Basin
___- Effective Dates: May 13, 2001, through May 28, 2001
- Final Rule - Amended Fee Table for Foreign Vessels Fishing in the EEZ
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- Notice - Maine & Deleware Summer Flounder Commercial quota harvested
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- Final Rule Republication - Framework 14 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP
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- Notice - Financial Assistance for Cooperative Research Projects to Strengthen & Develop the Northeast U.S. Groundfish Fishing Industry, Request for Proposals
___- Preliminary proposals will be accept no later than 5 pm local time on June 25, 2001
- Emergency Interium Rule - Atlantic Deep-Sea Red Crab, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5 pm local time on June 7, 2001
- Proposed Information Collection, Foreign Fishing Reporting Requirements, Request for Comments
___- Comments should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications for Spiny Dogfish
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- Proposed Information Collection, Atlantic Surf Clam & Ocean Quahog Transfer Log, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before July 2, 2001
- Final Rule - Framework 14 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP
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April 2001
March 2001
- Proposed Rule - 2001 Specifications for Spiny Dogfish, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5 p.m., EST, on April 14, 2001
- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications for Summer Flounder
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- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (ME DMR), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received by April 11, 2001
- Notification of 2001 TAC Levels for the Northeast Multispecies & Monkfish Fisheries.
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- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received by April 3, 2001
- Final Rule - New American Lobster / Black Sea Bass Management Area 5 Gear Waiver Permit
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- Proposed Rule - NMFS Poposes a Fee Schedule for Foreign Vessels Fishing in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone; Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before April 9, 2001
- Notice of Determination of Noncompliance - Declaration of Federal Moratorium on Fishing for American Lobster Within Rhode Island State Waters;
Effective May 1, 2001___
- Proposed Rule - 2001 Specifications for Atlantic Herring, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received no later than 5 p.m., EST, on April 4, 2001
- Notice of Comment Period Extention; Intent to Prepare a SEIS for the Northeast Multispecies & Atlantic Sea Scallop FMPs, Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received on or before 5 p.m., local time, April 4, 2001
- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications for Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, & Butterfish
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- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications & Closure Notice for Scup & Black Sea Bass
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February 2001
- Notification of Intent to Prepare a SEIS for the Northeast Multispecies & Atlantic Sea Scallop FMPs; Request for Comments; Notice of Scoping Meeting
___- Comments must be received by March 5, 2001
- Proposed Rule - Proposed 2001 Specifications for the Atlantic Bluefish Fishery; Comments must Be Received No Later than 5:00 P.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 03/23/2001.
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- Notice of Availability - Tilefish Fishery Management Plan Submitted for Secretarial Review; Comments must Be Received Not Later than 5:00 P.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 04/13/2001.
___ - Interim Final Rule - Closure of Hudson Canyon South & Virginia Beach Scallop Closed Areas Extended through March 1, 2001
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- Final Rule - 2001 Specifications for Surf Clams, Ocean Quahogs and Maine Mahogany Quahogs
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- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (Haskin Shellfish Research Lab), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received by March 14, 2001
- Notice of a Proposal for EFPs to Conduct Experimental Fishing (Gulf of ME Aquarium Dev. Corp. & ME Dept. of Marine Resources), Request for Comments
___- Comments must be received by March 14, 2001
- Final Rule; Partial Delay of VMS Requirement for Atlantic Herring Vessels
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January 2001
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