Emergency Regulations

The list below does not include shellfish closures,

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2022

Posted June 21, 2022

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden Reduced 2022 Episodic Fishery Harvest Limit, PDF file, 98 kb

Posted May 31, 2022

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2022 Season 1 Open, PDF file, 232 KB
• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden Modified 2022 State Allocation Harvest Schedule, PDF file, 102 KB

Posted April 29, 2022

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 50.02(A) Spiny Dogfish Harvest, Possession, and Landing Restrictions, PDF file, 77 KB

Posted February 18, 2022

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Scallop Targeted Closures: (9) Gouldsboro & Dyers Bay RA; (11) Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bays; (12) Upper Machias RA; (13) West Vinalhaven Islands, PDF file, 1.6 MB

Posted February 04, 2022

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (11) Johnson Bay & Eastport Breakwater, PDF file 330 KB

2021

Posted December 30, 2021

• Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (9) Gouldsboro & Dyers Bay LAA; (10) Wahoa Bay & West Moosabec Reach LAA, PDF file 1 MB

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

Emergency Regulations Archive, 2015–2020