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<span style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0093D0">NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Proposed Rule to Implement Framework Adjustment 14 to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">NOAA Fisheries proposes the following adjustments to commercial and recreational summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Including conservation equivalency as an annual management consideration for the black sea bass recreational fishery, which allows federal measures to be waived in lieu of appropriate state measures;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Creating a federal waters transit zone for non-federally permitted vessels fishing in state waters around Block Island Sound; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Incorporating a maximum recreational size limit in the list of potential specification measures for summer flounder and black sea bass.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">These adjustments are intended to provide additional flexibility in the management of these species.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0093D0">How Do I Comment?<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Michael Pentony, Regional Administrator<br>
Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office<br>
55 Great Republic Drive<br>
Gloucester, MA 01930<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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