Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 25, 2024

Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries last revised: Nov 18, 2024
§ 648.297 - Tilefish gear restricted areas.

No vessel of the United States may fish with bottom-tending mobile gear within the areas bounded by the following coordinates:

Canyon N. lat. W. long.
Degrees Min Seconds Degrees Min Seconds
Oceanographer40.029.050.068.010.030.0
40.029.030.068.08.034.8
40.025.051.668.06.036.0
40.022.022.868.06.050.4
40.019.040.868.04.048.0
40.019.05.068.02.019.0
40.016.041.068.01.016.0
40.014.028.068.011.028.0
Lydonia40.031.055.267.043.01.2
40.028.052.067.038.043.0
40.021.039.667.037.04.8
40.021.04.067.043.01.0
40.026.032.067.040.057.0
40.028.031.067.043.00.0
Veatch40.00.040.069.037.08.0
40.00.041.069.035.025.0
39.054.043.069.033.054.0
39.054.043.069.040.052.0
Norfolk37.05.050.074.045.034.0
37.06.058.074.040.048.0
37.04.031.074.037.046.0
37.04.01.074.033.050.0
36.058.037.074.036.058.0
37.04.026.074.041.02.0
[76 FR 60647, Sept. 29, 2011]
authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801
source: 61 FR 34968, July 3, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 50 CFR 648.297