May 7, 2020 — The National Marine Fisheries Service notified permit holders and the public Tuesday that a waiver for observer coverage in some fisheries expired at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, May 4, 2020. As of 12 a.m. Tuesday, May 5, observer coverage was reinstated for those fisheries.
Those permitted fisheries include:
- South Atlantic Penaeid Shrimp;
- South Atlantic Rock Shrimp;
- South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper;
- Southeast Gillnet;
- Gulf of Mexico Commercial Reef Fish;
- Gulf of Mexico Shrimp;
- Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Pelagic Longline
- Shark Bottom Longline (Atlantic HMS); and
- Shark Gillnet (Atlantic HMS)