250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-90-00-26.1
Current through December 26, 2024
The purpose of these Rules and Regulations is to administer the $227,273 allocation of mitigation relief provided to Rhode Island by NOAA and transferred to the State by the ASMFC by expeditiously and equitably disbursing it in the form of fishing gear contrivances to eligible fishery participants in the Rhode Island Lobster/Jonah Crab fishery to comply with the recently amended Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan and the subsequent NOAA Fisheries Final Rule (50 C.F.R. §§229 - 697) intended to reduce serious injury and mortality to three species of large whales.
250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-90-00-26.1