Proposed Rule
22 Aug 2025
compliance, imports, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, foreign relations, penalties, fishing, fisheries, noaa, marine conservation, treaties, statistics, fishing vessels, mobulid rays, atlantic highly migratory species
🐟Proposed Regulation
NMFS is proposing changes to regulations to implement the binding International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Recommendation 24-12 on mobulid rays of the family Mobulidae, which was adopted in 2024. Specifically, NMFS is proposing to prohibit retention of mobulid rays in fisheries for Atlantic highly migratory species (HMS), to require mobulid rays to be released unharmed in HMS fisheries, and to implement mobulid ray handling practices for vessels fishing with pelagic longline gear.
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