Notices and Rules
2025-2026 Specifications for the Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery Management Plan
2025-2026 Specifications for the Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery Management Plan
Effective
10/23/2025
Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Fishery Through November 30, 2025
Based on the best available landings information, the General
category October through November subquota is projected to be reached shortly.
Effective
10/07/2025
Framework Action 3 under the St. Croix and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Modification of Status Determination Criteria and
Framework Action 3 under the St. Croix and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Modification of Status Determination Criteria and Management Reference Points based on the SEDAR 80 Queen Triggerfish Stock Assessments
Comments Close
11/03/2025
2025 Commercial Scup Quota and Possession Limit Increase
2025 Commercial Scup Quota and Possession Limit Increase
Effective
10/01/2025
Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category (Commercial) Fishery
Closure of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category (Commercial) Fishery on September 18, 2025.
Effective
09/18/2025
2025–2026 Annual Specifications and Management Measures for Pacific Sardine
Harvest specifications and management measures for Pacific sardine for July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026
Published
09/16/2025
Main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 Bottomfish Annual Catch Limit and Accountability Measures for 2024-2027
NOAA Fisheries is proposing annual catch limits and accountability measures for main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 bottomfish through 2027.
Published
09/04/2025
Implementation of MMPA Import Provisions: Comparability Findings, Import Restrictions, and Certification of Admissibility
Notice of comparability findings and implementation and continuation of trade restrictions for certain fish and fish products.
Published
08/29/2025
Restoring America’s Seafood Competitiveness
Restoring America’s Seafood Competitiveness
Published
08/27/2025
Modifications to Size Limit for Gulf Lane Snapper
The framework action under the Gulf Reef Fish FMP would increase the recreational and commercial size limit for lane snapper from 8-inch total length (TL) to 10-inch TL in the Gulf of America.
Issued
08/27/2025