{"id":1838,"date":"2012-11-17T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2012-11-28T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:13:24","slug":"ma-pushes-to-modify-ambiguous-zero-tolerance-lobster-v-notch-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/ma-pushes-to-modify-ambiguous-zero-tolerance-lobster-v-notch-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"MA pushes to modify \u2018ambiguous\u2019 zero tolerance lobster v-notch rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA &#8212; The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) is trying to persuade the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to allow the commonwealth to change its \u201czero tolerance\u201d v-notch possession rule to a 1\/8~ standard in Area 1.<br \/>\nArea 1 covers the Gulf of Maine, and most Massachusetts lobstermen fish there primarily in Statistical Area 514.<br \/>\nDMF officials stress that they are only seeking this change for Massachusetts lobstermen.\u00a0 Maine and New Hampshire could continue to adhere to zero tolerance in Area 1 if they choose to under the commonwealth\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read the rest and much, much more in the December issue of Commercial Fisheries News. Read online immediately and download for future reference.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=1828]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA &#8212; The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) is trying to persuade the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to allow the commonwealth to change its \u201czero tolerance\u201d v-notch possession rule to a 1\/8~ standard in Area 1. Area 1 covers the Gulf of Maine, and most Massachusetts lobstermen fish there primarily in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/ma-pushes-to-modify-ambiguous-zero-tolerance-lobster-v-notch-rule\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-2012","category-lobster","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}