NMFS issues this interim final rule to implement measures contained in Framework 20 of the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This interim final rule implements management measures that include: A daily trip limit for cod for vessels when fishing north of 42 deg.00' N. lat.; a seasonal increase in the haddock limit from 1,000 lb (453.6 kg) per trip to 1,000 lb (453.6 kg) per day up to a maximum of 10,000 lb (4,536.0 kg) per trip beginning September 1, 1997, and ending when 1,150 mt are harvested; gillnet effort- reduction measures including a limit on the number of nets; and several exempted fishery actions, including exemptions for monkfish, skate, and dogfish in the Gulf of Maine and Southern New England Regulated Mesh Areas. The intent of this rule is to achieve the conservation goals established by Amendment 7 to the FMP while mitigating its economic impacts and to simultaneously incorporate several other Council actions that would otherwise have been submitted as separate frameworks.