Gear Requirements. While it is anticipated that Sector members will fish primarily with otter 13 trawls and sink gillnets, Participating Vessel may fish for Groundfish with any legal gear 14 including hook and line gear (demersal longlines, automated hook, jigs, and handlines), Scottish 15 seines, beam xxxxxx and pots. All Participating Vessels are subject to the same gear restrictions, 16 such as marking, tagging, mesh size, and number of gillnets, applicable to common pool vessels 17 using the same type of gear.
Gear Requirements. Limitation on the number of Gillnets that may be hauled on GB when fishing on a Groundfish/Monkfish DAS. • Limitation on the number of gillnets for day gillnet vessels. • Limitation on the number of hooks. • Trawl Gear requirements in the U.S./Canada Management Area • 6.5-inch minimum mesh size requirement for Trawl nets. • Prohibition on a Vessel Hauling Another vessels Hook Gear • Prohibition on using small mesh trawl nets to target small mesh species (silver xxxx, red xxxx, and squid) on a Sector Trip in the SNE Regulated Mesh Area.
Gear Requirements. Limitation on the number of Gillnets that may be hauled on GB when fishing on a Groundfish/Monkfish DAS. • Limitation on the number of gillnets for day gillnet vessels. • Limitation on the number of hooks. • Trawl Gear requirements in the U.S./Canada Management Area • 6.5-inch minimum mesh size requirement for Trawl nets. • Prohibition on a Vessel Hauling Another vessels Hook Gear • .
Gear Requirements
