Final Environmental Assessment, Regulatory Impact Review, and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for the Regulatory Amendment to Set Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Effort Controls and Clarify Related Regulations

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Final Environmental Assessment, Regulatory Impact Review, and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for the Regulatory Amendment to Set Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Effort Controls and Clarify Related Regulations

2024

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Corporate Authors:

United States. Office of Sustainable Fisheries
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; OSF (Office of Sustainable Fisheries) ; NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
Description:

This action would modify the regulatory process of scheduling restricted-fishing days (RFDs). As part of this modification, this action may codify and set the schedule of RFDs for the 2024 fishing year and subsequent fishing years. This action also would establish a General category default daily retention limit for large medium or giant bluefin tuna (BFT) on open days. Finally, this action would clarify the BFT dealer regulations and the definition of a BSD tag to address dealer and dealer agent activities on RFDs. This action is being taken pursuant to the rulemaking authority under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq., and consistent with the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act, id. §§ 971 et seq.
Keywords:

Bluefin Tuna Environmental Impact Analysis Fishery Management Bluefin Tuna Environmental Impact Analysis Fishery Management United States. Atlantic Tunas Convention Act Of 1975 United States. Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation And Management Act United States. National Environmental Policy Act Of 1969
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/0pft-6n26
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pdf
Publisher:

United States. Office of Sustainable Fisheries
Document Type:

Environmental Assessment
Place as Subject:

Atlantic Ocean
License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Information:

CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61449/noaa_61449_DS1.pdf
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