# Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions Applicable to Fishery Activities; Summer Flounder Fishery-Sea Turtle Protection Area
> **Bureau of Industry and Security** · Final rule. · Published 1996-01-24 · Effective 1996-01-23 · 61 FR 1845
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-961
- **Category:** bis-export-control
- **Sub-agency:** Bureau of Industry and Security
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 1845
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 217
- **Publication date:** 1996-01-24
- **Effective date:** 1996-01-23
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. 960116009-6009-01
## Abstract

This final rule requires summer flounder bottom trawlers to have a NMFS-approved turtle excluder device (TED) installed in any net that is rigged for fishing in the waters off Virginia and North Carolina from 37 deg.05' N. lat. (Cape Charles, VA) southward to 33 deg.35' N. lat. (North Carolina-South Carolina border) year round, except for trawlers north of 35 deg.46.1' N. lat. (Oregon Inlet, NC), which are exempt from this requirement from January 15 through March 15 each year. However due to unavoidable delays, the exemption from this requirement in 1996 begins on January 23, 1996. This final rule allows the summer flounder bottom trawl fishery to continue fishing while providing adequate protection to endangered and threatened sea turtles.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/01/24/96-961/sea-turtle-conservation-restrictions-applicable-to-fishery-activities-summer-flounder-fishery-sea)
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