What you comm guys are not catching enough?
What happened to the depletion of the BFT stocks and going on endangered list?
NMFS Announces a Final Rule to Adjust the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (BFT)
General and Harpoon Category (Commercial Handgear) Regulations
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces a final rule that:
( I ) Increases the General category maximum possible EWT daily retention limit from 3 to 5 fish (with
limit acijustments to be e x e cut ed via inseason actions as appropriate);
(2) Allows the BFT General category season to remain open until the January subquota is reached or
March 31 (whichever happens first); and
(3) Increases the Harpoon category daily retention limit of 73-81" BFT from 2 to 4 fish.