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Emergency Regulations

The list below does not include shellfish closures,

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Posted May 31, 2023 : Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring: 2023 Season 1 Open
Posted May 18, 2023 : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 42.01 Striped Bass Slot Limit Effective May 18, 2023
Posted February 16, 2023 : 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 January 6, 2023 : 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 September 29, 2022 : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring; 2022 Season 2 Harvest Controls Effective September 29, 2022
Posted August 30, 2022 : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 34.06 Emergency Rulemaking to Adjust Recreational Groundfish Measures for Cod and Haddock, PDF file, 148 kb
Posted August 29, 2022 : Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 41 2022 Menhaden Commercial Fishery Closed, PDF file, 96 kb
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
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, 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 4, 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

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