Published on: 21257470. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for the general chapter in the 2019 calendar year related to the practice of chumming or as a result of other management or enforcement requirements.
Published on: 20077368. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for the general chapter in the 2018 calendar year resulting from management or enforcement requirements.
Published on: 17013623. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule additions to marine fisheries general provisions in the 2016 calendar year in order to improve clarity and consolidate and standardize regulatory provisions that apply to all marine fisheries, and to address amendments resulting from the agency’s comprehensive review of Division 68B.
Published on: 16301158. The purpose of the proposed rule and rule amendment is to create a permit that meets federal requirements for king and Spanish mackerel tournaments that donate tournament-caught king and Spanish mackerel to wholesale dealers, who then sell the fish and give the proceeds to a charity on the tournament’s behalf.
Recent changes to federal rules require king and Spanish mackerel tournaments to obtain a state-issued tournament permit to continue a common practice of donating tournament-caught king and Spanish mackerel to wholesale dealers, who then sell the fish and give the proceeds to a charity on the tournament’s behalf. These federal rule changes are intended to address concerns that tournament-caught fish sold by wholesale dealers are “double counted” toward both recreational and commercial quotas, even though they are recreationally-caught.
The effect of the proposed rule and rule amendment is that tournaments would be able to comply with federal requirements while continuing the common practice of donating their fish to wholesale dealers for a charitable donation on behalf of the tournament. This practice has the added benefit of minimizing waste of mackerel, which are not always kept by tournament anglers for consumption.
Published on: 16046921. Current FWC regulations allow king and Spanish mackerel harvested in recreational fishing tournaments to be donated to wholesale dealers who sell the fish and donate the money received from sale of the fish to a charity of the tournament’s choosing. However, recent changes to federal rules for king and Spanish mackerel caught in federal waters off Florida only allow such activity during state-permitted tournaments. The purpose of this rule is to create a state mackerel tournament donation permit that meets the requirements of 50 C.F.R. § 622.386(e) (as of January 9, 2015) for tournament-caught king and Spanish mackerel to be donated and sold. The effect of this rule would be that tournament organizers would be allowed to donate tournament-caught king and Spanish mackerel (harvested from state or federal waters off Florida) to a licensed wholesale dealer in exchange for a donation of the monetary value of the fish to a charity of the tournament's choice.