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Emergency Regulations
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking-Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2025 Season 1 Open Effective May 31, 2025
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (14) West Vinalhaven Islands
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (11) Upper Machias & Little Machias Bay; (12) Cobscook, Whiting & Denny’s Bays; and 13) Upper Western Bay Effective January 19, 2025
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2024 Season 2 Opens
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.06 2024 Adjusted Recreational Measures for Cod and Haddock
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden Emergency Regulation Repeal
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Modified 2022 Episodic Fishery Harvest Limit
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36: Atlantic Herring
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2024 Season 1 Open
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (8) Upper Englishman Bay Rotational Area; (9) Upper Addison Rotational Area; (10) Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bay; (11) Upper Frenchman Bay; (12) Toothacher and Upper Swans Island Rotationa Effective January 28, 2024
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures; (8) Roque Island Harbor and LIttle Kennebec Bay in Englishman Bay Rotational Area; (9) Harrington River in Addison Rotational Area Effective December 24, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2023 Season 2 Open Effective September 30, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.06 Emergency Rule to Adjust Recreational Measures for Cod and Haddock
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 55.99 Gear Restrictions, Saco River Effective June 10, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 42.01 Striped Bass Slot Limit Effective May 18, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: Narraguagus/Pigeon Hill Rotational Area; Cobscook, Whiting & Dennys Bays; Lower Blue Hill Bay/Jericho Bay Rotational Area Effective February 19, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (8) East Moosabec Reach LAA; (9) Upper Chandler Bay, and; (10) Upper Narraguagus Bay Effective January 8, 2023
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2022 Season 2 Harvest Controls Effective September 29, 2022
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.06 Emergency Rulemaking to Adjust Recreational Groundfish Measures for Cod and Haddock, PDF file, 148 kb
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 2022 Menhaden Commercial Fishery Closed, PDF file, 96 kb
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 Menhaden Reduced 2022 Episodic Fishery Harvest Limit, PDF file, 98 kb
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2022 Season 1 Open, PDF file, 232 KB
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 50.02(A) Spiny Dogfish Harvest, Possession, and Landing Restrictions, PDF file, 77 KB
- Posted : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, 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 : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (11) Johnson Bay & Eastport Breakwater, PDF file 330 KB
2021
Posted December 30, 2021
Posted November 4, 2021
Posted September 30, 2021
Posted June 1, 2021
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