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NOAA Extendes Deadline for Public Comment - Com Swordfishing

PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:27 pm
by RudyGomez
NOAA Fisheries Extends Deadline

NOAA Fisheries has extended the deadline for public comment until Wednesday on a controversial request by a group of 13 commercial longline boats to be allowed to harvest swordfish and other pelagic species in a closed area of the Florida Straits north of Fort Pierce.
E-mail your comments to Michael Clark, Highly Migratory Species Division at: [email protected]

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:51 am
by MrStitch
Excuse me for the total ignorance, but what is a "pelagic" species?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:08 am
by RudyGomez
Pelagic refers to fish and animals that live in the open sea, away from the sea bottom