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The
Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the precious corals fisheries of
the western Pacific region was implemented in September 1983. It
established the plan’s management unit species and management area,
as well as classifying several known beds.
Precious Corals FMP
Final Rule.
The following tables contain management measures, including
amendments,
regulatory amendments, and framework
actions.
AMENDMENTS
| Amendment |
Effective Date / Federal Register
Notice |
Description of Action |
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7 |
8/13/08
73 FR
47098 |
Designated
the Au’au Channel bed as an established bed with a harvest quota for
black coral of 5,000 kg every two years for Federal and state waters
combined. Implemented a five year gold harvest moratorium for the
entire region. |
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6 |
9/12/06
71 FR
53605 |
Included Federal waters around CNMI and the Pacific Remote Island
Areas within the FMP’s management area. Extended existing
requirements for Federal permits and logbooks to include all
harvests of precious corals in EEZ waters in these areas. |
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5 |
2/24/04
69 FR 8336 |
Prepared
in
parallel with the Coral Reef FMP. Prohibits the harvest of Precious
Coral Management Unit Species in the no-take marine protected areas
established under the Coral Reef FMP, including areas around Rose
Atoll in American Samoa, Kingman Reef, Jarvis Island, Howland
Island, and Baker Island. |
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4 |
4/19/99
64 FR 190678/5/03
56 FR 14866 |
Addressed new requirements under the 1996 Sustainable Fisheries Act
(SFA). Portions of the amendment that were immediately approved
included designations of essential fish habitat, definitions of
overfishing and descriptions of bycatch and of some fishing
communities. Those provisions became effective on February 3,1999.
Remaining provisions regarding
Hawaii
fishing communities became effective August 5, 2003. |
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3 |
10/19/98
63 FR 55809 |
Established
a framework procedure for adjusting management measures in the
fishery. |
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2 |
1/28/91
56 FR 3072 |
Defined overfishing for Established beds as:
an Established
bed shall be deemed overfished with respect to recruitment when the
total spawning biomass (all species combined) has been reduced to
20% of its unfished condition. This definition applies to all
species of precious corals and is based on cohort analysis of the
pink coral, Corallium secundum. |
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1 |
7/21/88
50 FR 27519 |
Applied the management
measures of the FMP to the Pacific Remote Island Areas by incorporating them into a single Exploratory Permit
Area, expanded the management unit species to include all species of
the genus Corallium, and outlined provisions for the issuance
of experimental fishing permits designed to stimulate the domestic
fishery |
REGULATORY AMENDMENTS
Regulatory
Amendment |
Effective Date /
Federal Register Notice |
Description of Action |
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1 |
10/15/07
72 FR 59259 |
Removed
an exemption allowing fishermen who reported black coral harvest to
the State of Hawaii within five years prior to April 17, 2002 to
harvest black coral at a minimum base diameter of 3/4 inch. All
harvest of black corals must be done at a minimum of 1 inch base
diameter or 48 inch minimum height |
FRAMEWORK ACTIONS
| Framework |
Effective Date / Federal Register
Notice |
Description of Action |
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2 |
0/00/02
67 FR 34408 |
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1 |
3/18/02
67 FR 11941 |
Revised
the definitions of “live coral” and “dead coral,” suspended the
harvest of gold coral at Makapu’u Bed, applied minimum size
restrictions only to live precious corals, prohibited the harvest of
black coral with a stem diameter of less than one inch or a height
of less than 48 inches (with certain exceptions), prohibited the use
of non-selective fishing gear to harvest precious corals, and
applied the minimum size restrictions for pink coral to all permit
areas. |
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