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	<title>Fishery News from S.O.F.A. &#187; Closures and Openings</title>
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		<title>NOAA Announces Four Month Closure Of &#8220;The Edges&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/148</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FB09-042 has arrived.
It announces the finalizing of the new rule regarding the yearly four month closure (Jan 1 to April 30) of the area in the Northern Gulf NMFS is now calling &#8220;The Edges&#8221;
NOAA ANNOUNCES THE    FOUR MONTH CLOSURE OF &#8220;THE EDGES&#8221; TO PROTECT GAG AND OTHER GROUPERS DURING SPAWNING IN THE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Rule: Bottom Longline Restrictions</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/124</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the &#8220;compromise&#8221; worked out between industry reps and the Gulf Council and mentioned in the previous post to this blog wasn&#8217;t good enough.
FB09-027 has arrived and it is a doozy.
NOAA Fisheries Service implemented an emergency
rule, effective May 18, 2009, through October 28, 2009,
to reduce the sea turtle bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico
bottom longline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Limit on Golden Tilefish (South Atlantic) &#8220;Decreased&#8221; (Slashed)</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/116</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NMFS has sent out a notice that in the South Atlantic the trip limit for golden tilefish has been decreased to 300 lbs per day.  Hunh?
They do this when 75% of the quota has been landed.   They first call it a Trip Limit, then say it is now set at 300 lbs per day.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shallow Water Grouper Closure Begins Feb.15th.</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/85</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/85#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case there is any confusion, any new and pending regulations don&#8217;t change the shallow water grouper closure that we&#8217;ve had for the past few years.
All shallow water grouper is closed to commercial harvest from Feb. 15th to March 15th again this year.  According to the FWC in Tallahassee, that means you need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council Takes Reef Fish Committee Recommendation and Makes It Worse</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/75</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/75#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gulf Council took the horrible recommendation from their Reef Fish Committee to close longlining inside 300 feet for 5 months out of the year and made it much worse.  They are asking the NMFS to move everyone out beyond 300 ft (50 fathoms) until the deep water quota is filled &#8212; which won&#8217;t take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Research Fishery&#8221;?  Now there&#8217;s another fine turn of the language.</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/28</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/28#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blog admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NMFS is opening what they are terming a &#8220;Research Fishery&#8221; for LCS in the Atlantic and Gulf.  Don&#8217;t get too excited, they intend to issue &#8220;apporoximately 10&#8243; of these permits, but if you qualify you may well want to apply.
NMFS Requests Applications for Participation in the Atlantic Highly
Migratory Species 2008 Shark Research Fishery
The National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More excess paperwork showing a closure is a closure</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/27</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/27#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Sustainable Fisheries (such a nice name) has released the latest on shark landings.  Who would have thought that with the fishery closed, per se, that the regulatory agency would continue to generate their churn of paperwork completely unabated?
I suppose after my own boat was chosen to carry an observer in the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEEP WATER GROUPER COMMERCIAL FISHERY CLOSED IN GULF OF MEXICO&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/13</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/13#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOAA and NMFS made it official today with the release of FB08-029.
&#8220;The commercial fishery for deep water grouper in the Gulf of Mexico is closed, effective 12:01 a.m. (local time) May 10, 2008, through December 31, 2008. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service has determined the 2008 commercial quota of 1,020,000 pounds of deep water grouper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMMERCIAL FISHERY FOR TILEFISHES CLOSED IN GULF OF MEXICO&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/11</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/11#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOAA and NMFS made it official as of today with the release of FB08-028.
&#8220;The commercial fishery for tilefishes in the Gulf of Mexico is closed, effective 12:01 a.m. (local time) May 10, 2008, through December 31, 2008. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service has determined the 2008 commercial quota of 440,000 pounds of tilefishes will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEEPWATER FISHERIES LOSE ANOTHER 21 DAYS</title>
		<link>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/5</link>
		<comments>http://southernoffshorefishingassociation.com/blog/archives/5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another triumph of fishery mismanagement, NMFS, according to Steve Branstetter of the St. Petersburg, Florida office, will officially announce on Monday May 5, 2008 the closure of deepwater grouper and golden tile fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico from 12:01AM May 10, 2008 until Midnight, December 31, 2008.  As far as we can [...]]]></description>
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