Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Framework 9 Measures; Reporting Requirements

NMFS announces approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of collection-of-information requirements contained in Framework Adjustment 9 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This rule makes effective several reporting requirements that are associated with regulations that provide significant regulatory relief to fishermen, including transiting certain closed areas under specified conditions, fishing by vessels in a given state's winter flounder fishing program under certain conditions using net mesh size less than the minimum mesh size, and fishing by party and charter boats in the Nantucket Lightship Closed Area under certain conditions.