News & Announcements

Effective on May 1, 2023, this action implements possession and trip limits for the Northeast multispecies common pool fishery for the 2023 fishing year and other measures.

NOAA Fisheries, in conjunction with NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, requests that vessels avoid shipwreck sites on southern Stellwagen Bank.

NOAA Fisheries announces a preliminary at-sea monitoring coverage target for fishing year 2023 of 90 percent of all groundfish sector trips subject to the at-sea monitoring program.

NOAA Fisheries is announcing approved at-sea monitoring and electronic monitoring providers for fishing year 2023.

Today we are announcing, through a final rule, the amount of allocation each sector may carry over from fishing year 2021 to fishing year 2022, which ends April 30, 2023.

Instructions for vessels planning to fish exclusively west of 71 degrees 30 minutes west longitude.

Sector at-sea monitoring and electronic monitoring provider applications due January 9, 2023

NOAA Fisheries is implementing Amendment 23.

NOAA Fisheries has revised the at-sea monitoring coverage target to 80 percent of all groundfish sector trips for the rest of 2022 fishing year. This is a decrease from the 99-percent coverage target implemented on May 1, 2022.

NOAA Fisheries has set Gulf of Maine (GOM) cod and haddock recreational measures for fishing year 2022.