Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Omnibus Deep-Sea Coral Amendment

Federal Register · last updated January 3, 2020 – 12:00 AM

NMFS proposes to approve and implement the measures of the New England Fishery Management Council’s Omnibus Deep-Sea Coral Amendment. This action would protect deep-sea corals from the impacts of commercial fishing gear on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine. These proposed management measures are intended to reduce, to the extent practicable, impacts of fishing gear on deep-sea corals in New England while balancing their costs to commercial fisheries.

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