Modification of the Mid-Atlantic Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan to Allow Smaller Minimum Twine Size in Regulated Gillnet Fisheries

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Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) filed 1 comment on this docket between Feb 3, 2026 and Feb 3, 2026. 1 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 176d ago.

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Abstract

NMFS is taking a deregulatory action to revise the regulations implementing the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan (HPTRP) to ensure the HPTRP is consistent with a gillnet gear requirement previously put in place under the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan to reduce bycatch of Atlantic sturgeon. This action is necessary to inform the public about an amendment to the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan altering the minimum twine size requirement to ensure that fishermen may use the low-profile gillnet gear required by the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan and also be in compliance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act while fishing in the New Jersey Atlantic Sturgeon Bycatch Reduction Area.

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