50 CFR § 648.297 - Tilefish gear restricted areas.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s648.297"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 648.297 - Tilefish gear restricted areas."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "648.297"
section_name: "Tilefish gear restricted areas."
chapter_name: "FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
part_number: "648"
part_name: "FISHERIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "16 U.S.C. 1801"
regulatory_source: "61 FR 34968, July 3, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "648"
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# 648.297 Tilefish gear restricted areas.
No vessel of the United States may fish with bottom-tending mobile gear within the areas bounded by the following coordinates:
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| Oceanographer | 40.0 | 29.0 | 50.0 | 68.0 | 10.0 | 30.0 |
| | 40.0 | 29.0 | 30.0 | 68.0 | 8.0 | 34.8 |
| | 40.0 | 25.0 | 51.6 | 68.0 | 6.0 | 36.0 |
| | 40.0 | 22.0 | 22.8 | 68.0 | 6.0 | 50.4 |
| | 40.0 | 19.0 | 40.8 | 68.0 | 4.0 | 48.0 |
| | 40.0 | 19.0 | 5.0 | 68.0 | 2.0 | 19.0 |
| | 40.0 | 16.0 | 41.0 | 68.0 | 1.0 | 16.0 |
| | 40.0 | 14.0 | 28.0 | 68.0 | 11.0 | 28.0 |
| Lydonia | 40.0 | 31.0 | 55.2 | 67.0 | 43.0 | 1.2 |
| | 40.0 | 28.0 | 52.0 | 67.0 | 38.0 | 43.0 |
| | 40.0 | 21.0 | 39.6 | 67.0 | 37.0 | 4.8 |
| | 40.0 | 21.0 | 4.0 | 67.0 | 43.0 | 1.0 |
| | 40.0 | 26.0 | 32.0 | 67.0 | 40.0 | 57.0 |
| | 40.0 | 28.0 | 31.0 | 67.0 | 43.0 | 0.0 |
| Veatch | 40.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 69.0 | 37.0 | 8.0 |
| | 40.0 | 0.0 | 41.0 | 69.0 | 35.0 | 25.0 |
| | 39.0 | 54.0 | 43.0 | 69.0 | 33.0 | 54.0 |
| | 39.0 | 54.0 | 43.0 | 69.0 | 40.0 | 52.0 |
| Norfolk | 37.0 | 5.0 | 50.0 | 74.0 | 45.0 | 34.0 |
| | 37.0 | 6.0 | 58.0 | 74.0 | 40.0 | 48.0 |
| | 37.0 | 4.0 | 31.0 | 74.0 | 37.0 | 46.0 |
| | 37.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 74.0 | 33.0 | 50.0 |
| | 36.0 | 58.0 | 37.0 | 74.0 | 36.0 | 58.0 |
| | 37.0 | 4.0 | 26.0 | 74.0 | 41.0 | 2.0 |
[76 FR 60647, Sept. 29, 2011]