NOAA Fisheries Service continues the management measures implemented by the April 13, 2009, interim rule (as modified by the July 8, 2009 interim rule), which is scheduled to expire October 27. Specifically, this temporary rule maintains the current interim commercial and recreational management measures intended to reduce overfishing on certain stocks managed by the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, for the remainder of the 2009 fishing year (i.e., through April 30, 2010). Read the Federal Register posting.
