50 CFR § 224.104 - Special requirements for fishing activities to protect endangered sea turtles.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s224.104"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 224.104 - Special requirements for fishing activities to protect endangered sea turtles."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "224.104"
section_name: "Special requirements for fishing activities to protect endangered sea turtles."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "MARINE MAMMALS"
part_number: "224"
part_name: "ENDANGERED MARINE AND ANADROMOUS SPECIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "16 U.S.C. 1531-1543 and 16 U.S.C. 1361"
regulatory_source: "64 FR 14066, Mar. 23, 1999, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "224"
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# 224.104 Special requirements for fishing activities to protect endangered sea turtles.
(a) Shrimp fishermen in the southeastern United States and the Gulf of America who comply with rules for threatened sea turtles specified in § 223.206 of this chapter will not be subject to civil penalties under the Act for incidental captures of endangered sea turtles by shrimp trawl gear.
(b) Summer flounder fishermen in the Summer flounder fishery-sea turtle protection area who comply with rules for threatened sea turtles specified in § 223.206 of this chapter will not be subject to civil penalties under the Act for incidental captures of endangered sea turtles by summer flounder gear.
(c) Special prohibitions relating to sea turtles are provided at § 223.206(d).
[64 FR 14066, Mar. 23, 1999, as amended at 66 FR 44552, Aug. 24, 2001; 66 FR 67496, Dec. 31, 2001; 68 FR 8471, Feb. 21, 2003; 69 FR 18453, Apr. 7, 2004; 72 FR 31757, June 8, 2007; 90 FR 38002, Aug. 7, 2025]