Published on: 21430033. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for shrimp in the 2019 calendar year as a result of stock assessments, other management or enforcement requirements, or to address amendments resulting from the agency’s comprehensive review of Division 68B.
Published on: 20078532. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for shrimp in the 2018 calendar year resulting from stock assessments, other management or enforcement requirements, or to address amendments resulting from the agency’s comprehensive review of Division 68B.
Published on: 19541443. The purpose of this rule amendment is to modify the Commission’s Florida East Coast Shrimp Bed regulations, 68B-31.0156, Florida Administrative Code (FAC). The proposed amendment would modify the boundaries of the area off northeast Florida that is open to the commercial harvest of food shrimp during April and May.
The state waters on the Atlantic coast generally extend three nautical miles from the coast. However, in the case of the St. Johns River mouth, the state waters boundary extends three nautical miles from the offshore jetties that stabilize the entrance to the river. This creates a seaward curve in the state waters boundary in the region. The curvature of this line is referred to by shrimpers in the region as the “bubble.”
In 1995, the Marine Fisheries Commission created an exception to the April-May shrimping closure for a portion of the “bubble” at the industry’s request. Shrimp in this area were believed to be large enough to be marketable, as were those in adjacent federal waters, and it was easier for the shrimp fleet to operate if they could trawl through the “bubble” when fishing in federal waters instead of having to pick up their nets or trawl around it.
The shrimp industry has requested they be allowed to shrimp throughout the entire “bubble” during the two-month closure so that they can trawl continuously across the entire area. This change would require moving the western boundary of the area open to fishing between 0.5 – 1 mile to the west. Thereby creating a straight line that cuts directly across the base of the “bubble” and approximates a straight line three nautical miles off the mouth of the St. Johns River.
Published on: 18449611. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for shrimp in the 2017 calendar year as a result of stock assessments or other management or enforcement requirements, or to address amendments resulting from the agency’s comprehensive review of Division 68B.
Published on: 17364763. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for the food shrimp fishery that operates off the coast of northeast Florida. The rule amendment being considered would modify the Commission’s Florida East Coast Shrimp Bed regulations, 68B-31.0156, Florida Administrative Code, to expand the area where the food shrimp fishery off northeast Florida is allowed to operate during April and May when the remaining portion of the East Coast Shrimp Bed is closed to harvest.
Published on: 14006332. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for shrimp fisheries in the 2014 calendar year as a result of stock assessments, federal regulatory actions or other management and enforcement requirements, or to address amendments resulting from the agency’s comprehensive review of Division 68B.
Published on: 12430664. The purpose and effect of this rule development notice is to address possible rule amendments for shrimp fisheries in the 2013 calendar year as a result of stock assessments, federal regulatory actions or other management and enforcement requirements.