FB09-028 has arrived.
NOAA Seeking Public Comment on Proposed Rule Changes to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fishery Including an Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program
NOAA Fisheries Service is seeking public comment
on a proposed rule for the Gulf of Mexico reef fish
fishery. The proposed rule published in the Federal
Register on April 30, 2009 (74 FR 20134). The
public comment period ends on June 15, 2009.
The proposed rule establishes the parameters for the IFQ proposal for the Grouper and Tilefish Fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico. The full text of the bulletin, which has details of the plan (although no firm figures) and instructions for making public comments is available here.