Emergency Regulations

The list below does not include shellfish closures,

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2021

Posted November 4, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2021 Season 2 Open, PDF file 238 KB

Posted September 30, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2021 Season 2 Closed, PDF file 231 KB

Posted June 1, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 42: Striped Bass, PDF file140 KB

Posted May 28, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 8.20 Harvester Reporting, PDF file 28 KB
• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2021 Harvest Rules, PDF file 176 KB

Posted March 5, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (9) Isle au Haut RA; (10) Expanded Swan’s Island; (11) Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bays & St. Croix River; (12) Expanded Upper Frenchman Bay, PDF file 1 MB

Posted February 12, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (7) Upper Englishman Bay RA; (8) Addison RA; (11) Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bays; (12) Upper Frenchman Bay; (13) Damariscotta River LAA; and (14) West Casco Bay, PDF file 1.63 MB

Posted February 11, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 24 - Importation of Live Marine Organisms, PDF file 139 KB

Posted January 16, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (7) Roque Island Harbor and Kennebec River in Englishman’s Bay Rotational Area; (8) Harrington and Pleasant Rivers in Addison Rotational Area; (9) Fox Island Thorofare in Isle au Haut Rotational Area; and (10) Casco Passage and western Toothacher Bay in Swan’s Island Rotational Area, PDF file 1.2 MB

2020

Posted December 15, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 42.01 Statewide Striped Bass Size Restrictions, Harvest Methods, PDF file 142 KB

Posted November 4, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; Modify Season 2, PDF file 228 KB

Posted October 6, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; Season 2 Opens, PDF file 228 KB

Posted August 28, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.06 Recreational Groundfish Restrictions, PDF file176 KB

Posted August 21, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; Zero Landing Days, PDF file,232 KB

Posted July 1, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden EESA Reduction, PDF file, 139 KB

Posted June 26, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden Open EESA, PDF file, 93KB

Posted May 29, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2020 Harvest Rule, PDF file,17 5KB

Posted May 6, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.07 Atlantic Halibut Emergency Regulations, PDF file, 153 KB

Posted March 26, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 32.03: Amendment to Elver Harvesting Regulations Area Closures, PDF file, 121 KB

Posted March 20, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 32.03 Elver Harvesting Regulations Area Closures, PDF file, 162 KB

Posted February 14, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (13) Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bays, PDF file, 526 KB

Posted January 31, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (11) Middle Penobscot Bay Islands; (12) Somes Sound & Cranberry Isles, PDF file, 781 KB

Posted January 17, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (10) Chandler & Eastern Bays, PDF file, 273 KB

Posted January 3, 2020

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (9) Upper Narraguagus Bay, PDF file, 312 KB

Emergency Regulations Archive, 2015–2019