# Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Define Fishing Trip in Groundfish Fisheries
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1997-06-30 · Effective 1997-06-30 · 62 FR 35109
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-17046
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 35109
- **Publication date:** 1997-06-30
- **Effective date:** 1997-06-30
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No. 970619143-7143-01
## Abstract

NMFS issues regulations that interpret and make clarifying changes consistent with that interpretation to the term ``fishing trip'' for purposes of monitoring directed fishing closures in the fisheries of the exclusive economic zone off Alaska. This action is necessary to respond to recent confusion about this definition and how it relates to determinations of maximum retainable bycatch amounts of species that are closed to directed fishing.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/06/30/97-17046/fisheries-of-the-exclusive-economic-zone-off-alaska-define-fishing-trip-in-groundfish-fisheries)
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