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Amendment No. 5 to the Fishery Management Plan for Coral and Coral Reefs in of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic.

País/Territorio
Estados Unidos de América
Subdivisión territorial
Texas
Tipo de documento
Miscelanea
Fecha
1998
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Pesca, Especies silvestres y ecosistemas
Palabra clave
Política/planificación Pesca marítima Manejo y conservación pesquera Coral Animales acuáticos Ordenación/conservación Protección del hábitat Conservación del ecosistema Mamíferos marinos Protecíon de las especies
Área geográphica
Americas, Ártico, Pacífico Oriental, América del Norte, Atlántico Norte
Resumen

This Amendment to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Coral and Coral Reefs in the U.S. Fishery Conservation Zone (FCZ) of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic under the jurisdiction of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council provides additional management to the harvest of live rock in the Gulf of Mexico. Established management under the National Standard Guidelines that: Prohibits taking of coral reefs, (specifically, stony corals and black corals, fire coral and hydrocorals and two species of seafans.); Provides for a limited harvest of soft corals or octocorals except the two prohibited species of seafans and establishes coral habitat areas of particular concern (HAPC). Prohibits fishing with bottom longlines, traps, pots, and bottom trawls within HAPCs. Designated HAPCs in conjunction with the Oculina Bank, off Ft. Pierce on Florida's East Coast. Prohibits use of toxic chemicals to take fish or other marine organisms in or on a "coral area" including patch reefs, outer bank reefs, deepwater banks, and hard bottoms. Prohibits collection of dead coral or calcium carbonate rock (known as "live rock" in the aquarium trade); Established a live rock aquaculture permit system for the South Atlantic EEZ; Established criteria for issuance of permits to take prohibited coral for scientific, research, and educational, purposes and a permit system for use of allowable chemicals and harvest of octocorals.

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Referencias - Legislación

Enmienda

Fishery Management Plan for Coral and Coral Reefs in the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic.

Legislación | Estados Unidos de América | 1982

Palabra clave: Pesca marítima, Manejo y conservación pesquera, Política/planificación, Autorización de pesca, Aparejos de pesca/métodos de pesca, Capturas incidentales, Pesca no-comercial, Autorización/permiso, Ordenación/conservación, Protección del hábitat, Conservación del ecosistema, Especies en peligro, Coral, Áreas marinas protegidas, Protecíon de las especies, Zona protegida, Animales acuáticos

Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX