The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced that effective June 29, 2009, the Closed Area II Scallop Access Area will be closed to all scallop vessels for the remainder of the 2009 scallop fishing year. For information on the Fisheries Survival Fund’s actions in response, the Federal Register posting, weekly yellowtail flounder by-catch data, and all other material provided to Saving Seafood by NOAA go to: https://www.savingseafood.org/management-regulation/closed-area-ii-scallop-access-area-closure-3.html
