Current Fisheries Management Proclamations

  • SHELLFISH MANAGEMENT AREAS (Closures: New River, Alligator Bay)
    SF-4-2014
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    sunrise, Saturday, May 31, 2014

  • SHELLFISH MANAGEMENT AREAS – MOUTH OF NEUSE RIVER AND BRANT ISLAND SHOAL, PAMLICO SOUND
    SF-3-2024_SMA-MouthNeuse-BrantIsland-FINAL.pdf
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., April 8, 2024
    Maps

  • SHELLFISH MANAGEMENT AREAS – PAMLICO SOUND - TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF RULE FOR COORDINATES ADJUSTMENTS
    SF-6-2022
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., October 14, 2022
    Map Package

  • SHELLFISH TEMPERATURE AND SANITATION CONTROLS
    SS-1-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    sunrise on Monday, March 31, 2025

  • SHRIMP TRAWL INCREASES MINIMUM TAIL BAG/COD END MESH SIZE, AND BYCATCH REDUCTION DEVICE AND TURTLE EXCLUDER DEVICE REQUIREMENTS – ATLANTIC OCEAN
    SH-3-2022
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M. July 1, 2022
    Map

  • SHRIMP TRAWL – MESH SIZES FOR TRAWL BODY AND TAIL BAG/COD END, BYCATCH REDUCTION DEVICE AND TURTLE EXCLUDER DEVICE REQUIREMENTS – PAMLICO SOUND AND PORTIONS OF THE PAMLICO, BAY, AND NEUSE RIVERS – INTERNAL COASTAL FISHING WATERS
    SH-1-2022
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., July 1, 2022
    Map

  • SHRIMP TRAWLBYCATCH REDUCTION DEVICE AND TURTLE EXCUDER DEVICE REQUIREMENTS-CROATAN AND ROANOKE SOUNDS, PORTIONS OF THE PAMLICO, BAY, AND NEUSE RIVERS, CORE SOUND AND SOUTH TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE, AND SKIMMER TRAWLS STATEWIDE-INTERNAL COA
    SH-2-2022
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M. July 1, 2022
    Map

  • SHRIMP – RECREATIONAL CAST NET HARVEST – COASTAL FISHING WATERS
    SH-4-2022
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    5:01 P.M., Sunday, May 15, 2022

  • SNAPPER GROUPER COMPLEX – COMMERCIAL – 2025 SEASONS
    FF-5-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., January 1, 2025

  • SNAPPER GROUPER COMPLEX – COMMERCIAL – RED SNAPPER OPENING
    FF-23-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., July 14, 2025

  • SNAPPER GROUPER COMPLEX – RECREATIONAL – RED SNAPPER – OPEN LIMITED SEASON AND BLUELINE TILEFISH CLOSING
    FF-24-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., July 11, 2025 for red snapper and 11:59 P.M. July 21, 2025 for blueline tilefish

  • SNAPPER GROUPER COMPLEX – RECREATIONAL – SNOWY GROUPER AND GAG GROUPER – FISHING SEASONS
    FF-16-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., May 1, 2025

  • SPANISH MACKEREL – COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL – COMMERCIAL OPEN HARVEST– COASTAL AND JOINT FISHING WATERS
    FF-12-2025
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., March 1, 2025

  • SPINY DOGFISH – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS
    FF-47-2024
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    11:00 A.M., November 16, 2024

  • SPINY DOGFISH – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS
    FF-61-2021
    Issued Date:
    Effective Date:

    12:01 A.M., Friday, November 19, 2021