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Title 50 → Chapter VI → Part 600

TITLE 50—Wildlife and Fisheries

CHAPTER VI—FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

PART 600—MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT PROVISIONS

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Subpart A—GENERAL

§600.5
Purpose and scope.
§600.10
Definitions.
§600.15
Other acronyms.
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Subpart B—REGIONAL FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCILS

§600.105
Intercouncil boundaries.
§600.110
Intercouncil fisheries.
§600.115
Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).
§600.117
Council coordination committee (CCC).
§600.120
Employment practices.
§600.125
Budgeting, funding, and accounting.
§600.130
Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
§600.133
Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
§600.134
Stipends.
§600.135
Meeting procedures.
§600.140
Procedure for proposed regulations.
§600.150
Disposition of records.
§600.155
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
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Subpart C—COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP

§600.205
Principal state officials and their designees.
§600.207
Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.
§600.210
Terms of Council members.
§600.215
Council nomination and appointment procedures.
§600.220
Oath of office.
§600.225
Rules of conduct.
§600.227
Lobbying.
§600.230
Removal.
§600.235
Financial disclosure and recusal.
§600.240
Security assurances.
§600.245
Council member compensation.
§600.250
Council member training.
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Subpart D—NATIONAL STANDARDS

§600.305
General.
§600.310
National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.
§600.315
National Standard 2—Scientific Information.
§600.320
National Standard 3—Management Units.
§600.325
National Standard 4—Allocations.
§600.330
National Standard 5—Efficiency.
§600.335
National Standard 6—Variations and Contingencies.
§600.340
National Standard 7—Costs and Benefits.
§600.345
National Standard 8—Communities.
§600.350
National Standard 9—Bycatch.
§600.355
National Standard 10—Safety of Life at Sea.
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Subpart E—CONFIDENTIALITY OF STATISTICS

§600.405
Types of statistics covered.
§600.410
Collection and maintenance of statistics.
§600.415
Access to statistics.
§600.420
Control system.
§600.425
Release of statistics.
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Subpart F—FOREIGN FISHING

§600.501
Vessel permits.
§600.502
Vessel reports.
§600.503
Vessel and gear identification.
§600.504
Facilitation of enforcement.
§600.505
Prohibitions.
§600.506
Observers.
§600.507
Recordkeeping.
§600.508
Fishing operations.
§600.509
Prohibited species.
§600.510
Gear avoidance and disposal.
§600.511
Fishery closure procedures.
§600.512
Scientific research.
§600.513
Recreational fishing.
§600.514
Relation to other laws.
§600.515
Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).
§600.516
Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).
§600.517
Allocations.
§600.518
Fee schedule for foreign fishing.
§600.520
Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.
§600.525
Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.
§600.530
Pacific albacore fishery.
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Subpart G—PREEMPTION OF STATE AUTHORITY UNDER SECTION 306(B)

§600.605
General policy.
§600.610
Factual findings for Federal preemption.
§600.615
Commencement of proceedings.
§600.620
Rules pertaining to the hearing.
§600.625
Secretary's decision.
§600.630
Application for reinstatement of state authority.
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Subpart H—GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR DOMESTIC FISHERIES

§600.705
Relation to other laws.
§600.710
Permits.
§600.715
Recordkeeping and reporting.
§600.720
Vessel and gear identification.
§600.725
General prohibitions.
§600.730
Facilitation of enforcement.
§600.735
Penalties.
§600.740
Enforcement policy.
§600.745
Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.
§600.746
Observers.
§600.747
Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.
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Subpart I—FISHERY NEGOTIATION PANELS

§600.750
Definitions.
§600.751
Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.
§600.752
Use of conveners and facilitators.
§600.753
Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
§600.754
Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
§600.755
Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.
§600.756
Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.
§600.757
Operational protocols.
§600.758
Preparation of report.
§600.759
Use of report.
§600.760
Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.
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Subpart J—ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT (EFH)

§600.805
Purpose and scope.
§600.810
Definitions and word usage.
§600.815
Contents of Fishery Management Plans.
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Subpart K—EFH COORDINATION, CONSULTATION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

§600.905
Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.
§600.910
Definitions and word usage.
§600.915
Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.
§600.920
Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.
§600.925
NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
§600.930
Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
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Subpart L—FISHING CAPACITY REDUCTION FRAMEWORK

§600.1000
Definitions.
§600.1001
Requests.
§600.1002
General requirements.
§600.1003
Content of a request for a financed program.
§600.1004
Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.
§600.1005
Content of a request for a subsidized program.
§600.1006
Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.
§600.1007
Reduction amendments.
§600.1008
Implementation plan and implementation regulations.
§600.1009
Bids.
§600.1010
Referenda.
§600.1011
Reduction methods and other conditions.
§600.1012
Reduction loan.
§600.1013
Fee payment and collection.
§600.1014
Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.
§600.1015
Late charges.
§600.1016
Enforcement.
§600.1017
Prohibitions and penalties.
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Subpart M—SPECIFIC FISHERY OR PROGRAM FISHING CAPACITY REDUCTION REGULATIONS

§600.1100
[Reserved]
§600.1101
Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.
§600.1102
Pacific Coast groundfish fee.
§600.1103
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.
§600.1104
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.
§600.1105
Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
§600.1106
Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.
§600.1107
Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.
§600.1108
Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
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Subpart N—SHARK FIN REMOVAL, POSSESSION, TRANSFER AND LANDING

§600.1200
Purpose and scope.
§600.1201
Relation to other laws.
§600.1202
Definitions.
§600.1203
Prohibitions.
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Subpart O—LIMITED ACCESS PRIVILEGE PROGRAMS

§§600.1300-600.1309
[Reserved]
§600.1310
New England and Gulf of Mexico Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.
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Subpart P—MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES

§600.1400
Definitions.
§600.1405
Angler registration.
§600.1410
Registry process.
§600.1415
Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.
§600.1416
Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.
§600.1417
Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.
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Subpart Q—VESSEL MONITORING SYSTEM TYPE-APPROVAL

§600.1500
Definitions and acronyms.
§600.1501
Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.
§600.1502
Communications functionality.
§600.1503
Position report data formats and transmission.
§600.1504
Latency requirement.
§600.1505
Messaging.
§600.1506
Electronic forms.
§600.1507
Communications security.
§600.1508
Field and Technical Services.
§600.1509
General.
§600.1510
Notification of type-approval.
§600.1511
Changes or modifications to type-approvals.
§600.1512
Type-approval revocation process.
§600.1513
Type-approval revocation appeals process.
§600.1514
Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.
§600.1515
Litigation support.
§600.1516
Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System type-approval products.
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Subpart R—STANDARDIZED BYCATCH REPORTING METHODOLOGY

§600.1600
Purpose and scope.
§600.1605
Definitions and word usage.
§600.1610
Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.

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