Parrotfish Minimum Size Limits

Regulatory Amendment 4 to the Reef Fish FMP

144th Council MeetingDecember 19-20, 2012

*FL = Fork Length

ACTIONS/ALTERNATIVESAction 1: Commercial Harvest of ParrotfishAction 2: Recreational Harvest of Parrotfish

Alternatives Minimum Size Limit

Alternative 1: No Action --

Alternative 2: St. CroixPreferred

8 in FLPreferred for Redband parrotfish

9 in FLPreferred for other parrotfish species

10 in FL

11 in FL

12 in FL

Alternative 3: St. Thomas / St. John Alternative 4: Puerto Rico

8 in FL

9 in FL

10 in FL

11 in FL

12 in FL

CODIFIED TEXT

ParrotfishSizeLimits Codified-v1.3.doc

Timeline February 25, 2013: Publish Proposed Rule

30-day comment period

May 31, 2013: Publish Final Rule 30-day cooling period

July 1, 2013: Final Rule effective

CFMC 144 FINAL ACTION

Motion to approve regulatory Amendment 4 to the Reef Fish Management Plan and submit to the Secretary of Commerce for formal review and deem the codified text as necessary and appropriate.

R. Crabtree, E. Pineiro. Unanimously approved