{"id":4681,"date":"2014-03-24T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2014-03-24T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:11:40","slug":"nmfs-transfers-excess-yellowtail-from-scallop-to-groundfish-fishery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/nmfs-transfers-excess-yellowtail-from-scallop-to-groundfish-fishery\/","title":{"rendered":"NMFS transfers excess yellowtail from scallop to groundfish fishery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLOUCESTER, MA \u2013 The groundfish fishery got a bit of a boost on Feb. 20 when the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) transferred a portion of the scallop fishery\u2019s unused 2013 yellowtail flounder allocation to the groundfish fishery.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 scallop fishing year ended Feb. 28, but the groundfish year runs through April 30, so the transfer was extremely welcomed by groundfish fishermen who often are restrained by low yellowtail catch limits.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, NMFS transferred 37.7 metric tons (mt) of Georges Bank yellowtail and 15.7 mt of Southern New England\/Mid-Atlantic (SNE\/MA) yellowtail to the groundfish fishery and then revised the fishery\u2019s sub-annual catch limits (sub-ACLs) accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the groundfish fishery\u2019s sub-ACL for Georges Bank yellowtail rose 32%, increasing from 116.8 mt to 154.5 mt.\u00a0 The sub-ACL for SNE\/MA yellowtail went up 3%, increasing from 570 mt to 585.7 mt. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"CFN_4_14cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CFN_4_14cover-244x300.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"210\" \/>Read the rest and much, much more in the\u00a0April issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read online\u00a0immediately and download for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=4623]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOUCESTER, MA \u2013 The groundfish fishery got a bit of a boost on Feb. 20 when the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) transferred a portion of the scallop fishery\u2019s unused 2013 yellowtail flounder allocation to the groundfish fishery. The 2013 scallop fishing year ended Feb. 28, but the groundfish year runs through April 30, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/nmfs-transfers-excess-yellowtail-from-scallop-to-groundfish-fishery\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,104,19,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-14","category-regulations","category-scallop","category-yellowtail","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}