Rule
31 Mar 2025
compliance, puerto rico, regulation, fishing, fisheries, marine management, fishery management plans, st croix, st thomas
🎣Correction to Fishery Management Plans for U.S. Virgin Islands
NMFS corrects the final rule that implemented management measures described in the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans (collectively, island-based FMPs), which published in the Federal Register on September 13, 2022. Among other measures, the final rule revised species tables in Appendix A to part 622 and inadvertently removed banded rudderfish from the South Atlantic snapper-grouper species table. The purpose of this correcting amendment is to fix this inadvertent error.
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