Rule
16 Apr 2025
regulations, commerce, fishing, atlantic ocean, shark fishing, commercial quotas
🦈2025 Commercial Fishing Quotas for Atlantic Sharks Adjusted
In this action, NMFS adjusts the base annual commercial quotas for the 2025 Atlantic shark commercial fishing year as allowable based on underharvests from the 2024 fishing year. The 2025 Atlantic shark commercial fishing year opened on January 1, 2025 under the base annual commercial quotas and default commercial retention limits. This action is necessary to provide additional fishing opportunities for commercial shark fishermen to harvest optimum yield from the Atlantic shark fisheries.
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