The purpose of these new rules and rule amendments is to simplify marine fisheries regulations by creating greater consistency among the regulations, eliminating repetition, and reducing opportunities for misinterpretation. The proposed General chapter will become a single, intuitive location for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (Commission) regulations that apply to all marine fisheries. This will reduce confusion and simplify enforcement by ensuring that these provisions are consistent in their wording and their meaning. The new rules include definitions and provisions that were taken from existing marine fisheries regulations found elsewhere in 68B. Some have been modified slightly to improve clarity or create consistency. All will be applied broadly to all marine fisheries, including those sometimes referred to as “unregulated” due to their lack of established seasons, bag limits, or size limits, unless otherwise stated elsewhere in Division 68B. The primary effect of these rules will be to broaden and standardize the application of existing marine fisheries regulatory provisions and standardize commonly used definitions, applying the provisions and definitions consistently across all marine fisheries.