NMFS announces that the Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS (Regional Administrator) is suspending the haddock trip limit for the NE multispecies fishery for the remainder of the 2003 fishing year. The Regional Administrator has projected that less than 75 percent of the haddock target total allowable catch (TAC) will be harvested for the 2003 fishing year under the existing restrictive trip limits. This action is intended to allow fishermen to catch more of the haddock TAC, without exceeding it, and to reduce discards of haddock. Therefore, this action removes the haddock trip limit for the remainder of the 2003 fishing year, through April 30, 2004.