July 29, 2014 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
This announces a correction to the July 18, 2014, Greater Atlantic Region Bulletin regarding the area closure for Gulf of Maine cod. In that letter we announced that effective July 23, the Gulf of Maine Cod Trimester 1 TAC Area is closed for the remainder of Trimester 1, through August 31, 2014. An error was made in communicating what statistical areas this applied to.
Common pool vessels on a groundfish trip using trawl gear, sink gillnet gear, and/or longline/hook gear are prohibited from fishing in statistical areas 513 and 514 through August 31, 2014 (not statistical areas 513, 514, and 515, as erroneously stated in the July 18 Bulletin).
The areas will reopen at the beginning of Trimester 2 at 0001 hours on September 1, 2014. Click here to read more.