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2024 Advisories

DMF Advisories provide official announcements of updates to permits, public hearings, opening & closing of fishing seasons, and other important news.
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April

4/26/24: Update on 2024 Recreational Fishing Rules and Upcoming Public Hearing and Comment Period 
04/24/24: Updates to Commercial Shellfish Harvest and Handling Regulations for 2024 
04/23/24: New Rules Effecting Filleting of Striped Bass in Recreational Fishery 
04/22/24: May Commercial Groundfish Closure Update 
04/19/24: DMF Adopts New Commercial Fisheries Permitting and Permit Transfer Rules 
Open PDF file, 121.83 KB,  4/19/24: Annual Spring Trawl Survey to Begin May 6, 2024 (English, PDF 121.83 KB)
Open PDF file, 226.44 KB,  4/18/24: Vineyard Wind 1 Compensation Eligibility Period Reminder (English, PDF 226.44 KB)
04/18/24: New State Waters Commercial Trip Limit for Atlantic Mackerel 
04/18/24: Update on Rules for 2024 Commercial Summer Flounder Fishery 
04/17/24: Update on Rules for 2024 Commercial Striped Bass Fishery 
04/16/24: Update on 2024 Commercial Menhaden Management 
Open PDF file, 275.81 KB,  4/12/24: New Regulations Affecting the Harvest of Horseshoe Crabs (English, PDF 275.81 KB)
Open PDF file, 122.84 KB,  4/12/24: Scheduled Whelk Gauge Increases Temporarily Paused (English, PDF 122.84 KB)
4/5/24: Atlantic Sea Herring Board to Meet on April 24 to Discuss Area 1A Effort Controls for 2024 

March

Open PDF file, 229.53 KB,  3/28/24: Public Comment Sought on American Lobster Draft Addendum XXX (English, PDF 229.53 KB)
Open PDF file, 285.1 KB,  3/26/24: Reminder to Declare into the Atlantic Herring 1A Fishery (English, PDF 285.1 KB)
Open PDF file, 233.64 KB,  3/26/24: Expected 2024 Recreational Measures for Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass (English, PDF 233.64 KB)
3/6/24: Virtual Stakeholder Meeting on Reclassification of Buzzards Bay Shellfish Growing Areas 
3/1/24: Vineyard Wind 1 Compensatory Mitigation Program to Open on March 4, 2024 

February

2/21/24: Upcoming Public Hearings on Recreational and Commercial Lobster Fishing and Trap Fisheries 
Open PDF file, 248.13 KB,  2/20/24: South Fork Wind Direct Compensation Eligibility Period Open (English, PDF 248.13 KB)
Open PDF file, 233.15 KB,  2/20/24: Opportunity for Public Comment on Interstate Management of American Eel (English, PDF 233.15 KB)
2/9/24: NOAA Fisheries to Closure Massachusetts Restricted Area Wedge for Traps 
02/9/24: DMF to Host Stakeholder Meeting on Newburyport Depuration Plant 
02/09/24: Public Scoping for 2024 Recreational Rules - Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass 
02/07/24: DMF to Host Public Hearings and Comment Period on Commercial Fishing Adjustments for 2024 
02/04/24: Striped Bass Management in 2024 Under Addendum 2 

January

1/31/24: Summer Flounder Trip Limit Reduced to 100 Pounds on February 6 
01/19/24: 1/19/24: DMF to Host Virtual Stakeholder Meeting for State Waters Mobile Gear Fishery 
Open PDF file, 231.71 KB,  1/10/24: Outlook for Recreational Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Regulations in 2024 (English, PDF 231.71 KB)
Open PDF file, 256.63 KB,  1/10/24: Applications Sought for New England Fishery Management Council (English, PDF 256.63 KB)

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