Part 600 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions  


Subpart A - General
§ 600.5 - Purpose and scope.
§ 600.10 - Definitions.
§ 600.15 - Other acronyms.
Subpart B - Regional Fishery Management Councils
§ 600.105 - Intercouncil boundaries.
§ 600.110 - Intercouncil fisheries.
§ 600.115 - Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).
§ 600.117 - Council coordination committee (CCC).
§ 600.120 - Employment practices.
§ 600.125 - Budgeting, funding, and accounting.
§ 600.130 - Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
§ 600.133 - Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
§ 600.134 - Stipends.
§ 600.135 - Meeting procedures.
§ 600.140 - Procedure for proposed regulations.
§ 600.150 - Disposition of records.
§ 600.155 - Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Subpart C - Council Membership
§ 600.205 - Principal state officials and their designees.
§ 600.207 - Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.
§ 600.210 - Terms of Council members.
§ 600.215 - Council nomination and appointment procedures.
§ 600.220 - Oath of office.
§ 600.225 - Rules of conduct.
§ 600.227 - Lobbying.
§ 600.230 - Removal.
§ 600.235 - Financial disclosure and recusal.
§ 600.240 - Security assurances.
§ 600.245 - Council member compensation.
§ 600.250 - Council member training.
Subpart D - National Standards
§ 600.305 - General.
§ 600.310 - National Standard 1 - Optimum Yield.
§ 600.315 - National Standard 2 - Scientific Information.
§ 600.320 - National Standard 3 - Management Units.
§ 600.325 - National Standard 4 - Allocations.
§ 600.330 - National Standard 5 - Efficiency.
§ 600.335 - National Standard 6 - Variations and Contingencies.
§ 600.340 - National Standard 7 - Costs and Benefits.
§ 600.345 - National Standard 8 - Communities.
§ 600.350 - National Standard 9 - Bycatch.
§ 600.355 - National Standard 10 - Safety of Life at Sea.
Subpart E - Confidentiality of Statistics
§ 600.405 - Types of statistics covered.
§ 600.410 - Collection and maintenance of statistics.
§ 600.415 - Access to statistics.
§ 600.420 - Control system.
§ 600.425 - Release of statistics.
Subpart F - Foreign Fishing
§ 600.501 - Vessel permits.
§ 600.502 - Vessel reports.
§ 600.503 - Vessel and gear identification.
§ 600.504 - Facilitation of enforcement.
§ 600.505 - Prohibitions.
§ 600.506 - Observers.
§ 600.507 - Recordkeeping.
§ 600.508 - Fishing operations.
§ 600.509 - Prohibited species.
§ 600.510 - Gear avoidance and disposal.
§ 600.511 - Fishery closure procedures.
§ 600.512 - Scientific research.
§ 600.513 - Recreational fishing.
§ 600.514 - Relation to other laws.
§ 600.515 - Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).
§ 600.516 - Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).
§ 600.517 - Allocations.
§ 600.518 - Fee schedule for foreign fishing.
§ 600.520 - Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.
§ 600.525 - Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.
§ 600.530 - Pacific albacore fishery.
Subpart G - Preemption of State Authority Under Section 306(b)
§ 600.605 - General policy.
§ 600.610 - Factual findings for Federal preemption.
§ 600.615 - Commencement of proceedings.
§ 600.620 - Rules pertaining to the hearing.
§ 600.625 - Secretary's decision.
§ 600.630 - Application for reinstatement of state authority.
Subpart H - General Provisions for Domestic Fisheries
§ 600.705 - Relation to other laws.
§ 600.710 - Permits.
§ 600.715 - Recordkeeping and reporting.
§ 600.720 - Vessel and gear identification.
§ 600.725 - General prohibitions.
§ 600.730 - Facilitation of enforcement.
§ 600.735 - Penalties.
§ 600.740 - Enforcement policy.
§ 600.745 - Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.
§ 600.746 - Observers.
§ 600.747 - Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.
§ 600.748 - National Minimum Observer Provider Insurance Standard.
Subpart I - Fishery Negotiation Panels
§ 600.750 - Definitions.
§ 600.751 - Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.
§ 600.752 - Use of conveners and facilitators.
§ 600.753 - Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
§ 600.754 - Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
§ 600.755 - Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.
§ 600.756 - Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.
§ 600.757 - Operational protocols.
§ 600.758 - Preparation of report.
§ 600.759 - Use of report.
§ 600.760 - Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.
Subpart J - Essential Fish Habitat (EFH)
§ 600.805 - Purpose and scope.
§ 600.810 - Definitions and word usage.
§ 600.815 - Contents of Fishery Management Plans.
Subpart K - EFH Coordination, Consultation, and Recommendations
§ 600.905 - Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.
§ 600.910 - Definitions and word usage.
§ 600.915 - Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.
§ 600.920 - Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.
§ 600.925 - NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
§ 600.930 - Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
Subpart L - Fishing Capacity Reduction Framework
§ 600.1000 - Definitions.
§ 600.1001 - Requests.
§ 600.1002 - General requirements.
§ 600.1003 - Content of a request for a financed program.
§ 600.1004 - Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.
§ 600.1005 - Content of a request for a subsidized program.
§ 600.1006 - Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.
§ 600.1007 - Reduction amendments.
§ 600.1008 - Implementation plan and implementation regulations.
§ 600.1009 - Bids.
§ 600.1010 - Referenda.
§ 600.1011 - Reduction methods and other conditions.
§ 600.1012 - Reduction loan.
§ 600.1013 - Fee payment and collection.
§ 600.1014 - Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.
§ 600.1015 - Late charges.
§ 600.1016 - Enforcement.
§ 600.1017 - Prohibitions and penalties.
§ 600.1018 - Implementation regulations for each program.
Subpart M - Specific Fishery or Program Fishing Capacity Reduction Regulations
§ 600.1019 - Purpose and scope.
§ 600.1020 - Relation to other laws.
§ 600.1021 - Definitions.
§ 600.1022 - Prohibitions.
§ 600.1023 - Shark finning; possession at sea and landing of shark fins.
§ 600.1100 - [Reserved]
§ 600.1101 - Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.
§ 600.1102 - Pacific Coast groundfish fee.
§ 600.1103 - Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.
§ 600.1104 - Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.
§ 600.1105 - Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
§ 600.1106 - Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.
§ 600.1107 - Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.
§ 600.1108 - Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
Subpart N - Shark Fin Removal, Possession, Transfer and Landing
§ 600.1200 - Purpose and scope.
§ 600.1201 - Relation to other laws.
§ 600.1202 - Definitions.
§ 600.1203 - Prohibitions.
§ 600.1204 - Shark finning; possession at sea and landing of shark fins.
Subpart O - Limited Access Privilege Programs
§§ 600.1300--600.1309 - [Reserved]
§ 600.1310 - New England and Gulf of Mexico Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.
Subpart P - Marine Recreational Fisheries of the United States
§ 600.1400 - Definitions.
§ 600.1405 - Angler registration.
§ 600.1410 - Registry process.
§ 600.1415 - Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.
§ 600.1416 - Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.
§ 600.1417 - Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.
Subpart Q - Vessel Monitoring System Type-Approval
§ 600.1500 - Definitions and acronyms.
§ 600.1501 - Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.
§ 600.1502 - Communications functionality.
§ 600.1503 - Position report data formats and transmission.
§ 600.1504 - Latency requirement.
§ 600.1505 - Messaging.
§ 600.1506 - Electronic forms.
§ 600.1507 - Communications security.
§ 600.1508 - Field and Technical Services.
§ 600.1509 - General.
§ 600.1510 - Notification of type-approval.
§ 600.1511 - Changes or modifications to type-approvals.
§ 600.1512 - Type-approval revocation process.
§ 600.1513 - Type-approval revocation appeals process.
§ 600.1514 - Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.
§ 600.1515 - Litigation support.
§ 600.1516 - Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System Type-approval products.
§ 600.1517 - Litigation support.
§ 600.1518 - Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System Type-approval products.
Subpart R - Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology
§ 600.1600 - Purpose and scope.
§ 600.1605 - Definitions and word usage.
§ 600.1610 - Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.