South Atlantic Swordfish. Proposed Rule Documents: Environmental Assessment, Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, and Regulatory Impact Review

• Main Authors: Office Of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine, Fisheries Service, Megan Caldwell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: ii FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT TO ADJUST THE ATLANTIC SWORDFISH QUOTAS BASED ON T; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.423.1128; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/Swordfish/Swordfish_Specs_DraftEA_Feb2006.pdf

The United States is obligated under the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (ATCA) to implement conservation and management recommendations that have been adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). These proposed regulations would extend the 2005 North Atlantic swordfish quota pursuant to the 2004 ICCAT recommendation (04-02) and carry over the unharvested quotas from the 2004 fishing year to the 2005 fishing year for North and South Atlantic swordfish. These actions are necessary to ensure continued progress toward the conservation goals of ICCAT for Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS). Short-term economic impacts resulting from these actions are not expected to be