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Can I continue to use small mesh drift gillnets to opportunistically catchalbacore while fishing in the surface hook and line fishery?

April 26, 2017Continue drift fishing hook mesh opportunistically small

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Can I continue to use small mesh drift gillnets to opportunistically catchalbacore while fishing in the surface hook and line fishery?

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A. No, albacore surface hook and line vessels may not deploy small mesh drift gillnets to target albacore as was customarily practiced by selected vessels prior to passage of the HMS FMP final rule.