WASHINGTON, April 21 -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a notice called: Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic; Request for an Exempted Fishing Permit.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on April 21 by Kelly Denit, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
Summary: NMFS announces the receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit (EFP) from Cultimar Technologies, Inc. (Cultimar). If granted by NMFS, the EFP would authorize the applicant to collect 200 sexually mature American red snapper from Federal waters off the Atlantic coast of Florida to establish a dedicated broodstock population at a hatchery research facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Th...