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The Caribbean Fishery
Management Council (CFMC) is
one of eight regional fishery management councils,
established under PL 94-265, known as the Magnuson-Stevens Act (the
Act) or Sustainable Fisheries Act as amended in 1996, for
the conservation and orderly utilization of the fishery resources of
the United States of America.
The CFMC
includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (PR) and the United States Virgin Islands
(USVI). It
has ten members, seven with vote and three
with voice but no vote. Four of the voting members are appointed by
the US Secretary of Commerce upon recommendations of the Governors of
PR and the USVI. The other voting members are directly designated by
the Act: the principal officials from PR and USVI with marine fishery
management responsibility, and the Regional Administrator for the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Regional Office (SERO) .
The three non-voting members are: the Director of the Southeast
(Atlanta) Region of the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Commander
of the Seventh (Miami) District of the US Coast Guard (USCG), and a
representative from the US Department of State (USDS).
The CFMC
has its headquarters in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is unique in being the only council that
does not include one of the fifty states of the Union and in sharing
fish stocks with many Caribbean nations.
The
Caribbean Fishery Management Council is responsible for the creation
of management plans for fishery resources (FMPs) in waters off PR and
the USVI. FMPs are submitted to the US Secretary of Commerce for
approval and implementation in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) upon approval of the Federal Regulation (CFR).
Local Governments adopt compatible legislation for the conservation
of the fishery resources within local waters around Puerto Rico and
the United States Virgin Islands.
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by the deadline set for in the Federal Register.
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information available through this site may change over time.
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discrepancy, the information appearing on this site. Other disclaimers apply
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