Title 50, Part 600 — Magnuson-stevens Act Provisions

Purpose and scope.

Definitions.

Other acronyms.

Intercouncil boundaries.

Intercouncil fisheries.

Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).

Council coordination committee (CCC).

Employment practices.

Budgeting, funding, and accounting.

Protection of confidentiality of statistics.

Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).

Stipends.

Meeting procedures.

Procedure for proposed regulations.

Disposition of records.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Principal state officials and their designees.

Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.

Terms of Council members.

Council nomination and appointment procedures.

Oath of office.

Rules of conduct.

Lobbying.

Removal.

Financial disclosure and recusal.

Security assurances.

Council member compensation.

Council member training.

General.

National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.

National Standard 2—Scientific Information.

National Standard 3—Management Units.

National Standard 4—Allocations.

National Standard 5—Efficiency.

National Standard 6—Variations and Contingencies.

National Standard 7—Costs and Benefits.

National Standard 8—Communities.

National Standard 9—Bycatch.

National Standard 10—Safety of Life at Sea.

Applicability.

Protection of confidential information.

Access to confidential information.

Release of confidential information.

Release of information in aggregate or summary form.

Vessel permits.

Vessel reports.

Vessel and gear identification.

Facilitation of enforcement.

Prohibitions.

Observers.

Recordkeeping.

Fishing operations.

Prohibited species.

Gear avoidance and disposal.

Fishery closure procedures.

Scientific research.

Recreational fishing.

Relation to other laws.

Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).

Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).

Allocations.

Fee schedule for foreign fishing.

Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.

Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.

Pacific albacore fishery.

General policy.

Factual findings for Federal preemption.

Commencement of proceedings.

Rules pertaining to the hearing.

Secretary's decision.

Application for reinstatement of state authority.

Relation to other laws.

Permits.

Recordkeeping and reporting.

Vessel and gear identification.

General prohibitions.

Facilitation of enforcement.

Penalties.

Enforcement policy.

Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.

Observers.

Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.

National Minimum Observer Provider Insurance Standard.

Definitions.

Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.

Use of conveners and facilitators.

Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.

Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.

Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.

Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.

Operational protocols.

Preparation of report.

Use of report.

Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.

Purpose and scope.

Definitions and word usage.

Contents of Fishery Management Plans.

Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.

Definitions and word usage.

Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.

Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.

NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.

Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.

Definitions.

Requests.

General requirements.

Content of a request for a financed program.

Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.

Content of a request for a subsidized program.

Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.

Reduction amendments.

Implementation plan and implementation regulations.

Bids.

Referenda.

Reduction methods and other conditions.

Reduction loan.

Fee payment and collection.

Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.

Late charges.

Enforcement.

Prohibitions and penalties.

[Reserved]

Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.

Pacific Coast groundfish fee.

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.

Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.

Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.

Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.

Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.

Purpose and scope.

Relation to other laws.

Definitions.

Prohibitions.

§§ 600.1300-600.1309 [Reserved]

New England and Gulf Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.

Definitions.

Angler registration.

Registry process.

Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.

Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.

Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.

Definitions and acronyms.

Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.

Communications functionality.

Position report data formats and transmission.

Latency requirement.

Messaging.

Electronic forms.

Communications security.

Field and technical services.

General.

Notification of type-approval.

Changes or modifications to type-approvals.

Type-approval revocation process.

Type-approval revocation appeals process.

Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.

Litigation support.

Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System type-approval products.

Purpose and scope.

Definitions and word usage.

Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.