Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries; Biennial Specifications; 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 Specifications for Pacific Mackerel
Built by the Tribune's code from the Federal Register. No AI wrote this page. Published in the Federal Register March 18, 2026. Document 2026-05252. Updated Nov. 13, 2026.
- What it does
NMFS is implementing annual harvest specifications and management measures for Pacific mackerel in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the West Coast for the fishing year July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, and the fishing year July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. These specifications include overfishing limits (OFL), allowable biological catch (ABC), annual catch limits (ACL), harvest guidelines (HG), and annual catch targets (ACT) for each respective fishing year. If the fishery attains the ACT for either fishing year, 8,143 metric tons (mt) for 2025-2026 or 9,448 mt for 2026-2027, the directed fishery will close, reserving the 1,000 mt difference between the HG and ACT as a set-aside for incidental landings in other coastal pelagic species (CPS) fisheries and other sources of mortality. The HG is 9,143 mt for 2025-2026 and 10,448 mt for 2026-2027. This rulemaking is made pursuant to the CPS Fishery Management Plan (FMP), and is intended to conserve and manage the Pacific mackerel stock off the U.S. West Coast.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.
- What changed in the regulation
1 part of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations:
Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).
- Compared with
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published 186 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 184 in all of 2025.
Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.
- Before this
1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0648-BN75 since Jan. 1, 2025.
- What happens next and when
Effective April 17, 2026.
The agency's dates, word for word.
The record as published
| Document number | 2026-05252 |
|---|---|
| Action | Final rule. |
| Agencies | Commerce Department; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Published | March 18, 2026 |
| Effective date | April 17, 2026 |
| Regulation identifier (RIN) | 0648-BN75 |
| Docket | NOAA-NMFS-2025-0034 |
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