50 CFR § 622.378 - Seasonal closures of the Gulf migratory group king mackerel gillnet fishery.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s622.378"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 622.378 - Seasonal closures of the Gulf migratory group king mackerel gillnet fishery."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "622.378"
section_name: "Seasonal closures of the Gulf migratory group king mackerel gillnet fishery."
chapter_name: "FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
part_number: "622"
part_name: "FISHERIES OF THE CARIBBEAN, GULF OF AMERICA, AND SOUTH ATLANTIC"
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. 1801"
regulatory_source: "78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "622"
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# 622.378 Seasonal closures of the Gulf migratory group king mackerel gillnet fishery.
(a) *Seasonal closure of the gillnet component for Gulf migratory group king mackerel.* The gillnet component for Gulf migratory group king mackerel in or from the southern zone is closed each fishing year from July 1 until 6 a.m. eastern standard time on the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal holiday. During the closure, a person aboard a vessel using or possessing a gillnet with a stretched-mesh size of 4.75 inches (12.1 cm) or larger in the southern zone may not fish for or possess Gulf migratory group king mackerel. (See § 622.369(a)(1)(iii) for a description of the southern zone.)
(b) [Reserved]
[80 FR 4221, Jan. 27, 2015, as amended at 82 FR 17396, Apr. 11, 2017; 88 FR 61477, Sept. 7, 2023]