# 2025-04281: More Cod Tracking Talk: New England Webinar Redux

2025-04281, New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published 2025-03-17, effective 2025-04-11; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-30).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-04281
- As of: 2026-09-30
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-04281
- Title: New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 12299
- Published: 2025-03-17
- Effective: 2025-04-11
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-09-30

## In one line

More Cod Tracking Talk: New England Webinar Redux

## Summary

The New England Fishery Management Council is holding a webinar on April 11, 2025, to review new ways to track Atlantic cod caught and discarded in the lobster fishery. This affects fishermen and helps improve how we manage cod stocks in the Gulf of Maine. The meeting will guide future fishing rules to keep cod populations healthy without hurting the lobster industry.

## Abstract

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is holding a public meeting of its Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) Subpanel via webinar to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

## Effects PRIA read

- Review may guide future fishing rules: benefit, medium. The Council will review methods for tracking Atlantic cod discarded in the lobster fishery and will bring recommendations to the full Council for formal consideration and action. This review is intended to guide future fishing rules to keep Gulf of Maine cod stocks healthy while not hurting the lob…
- Discard estimates to affect catch accounting: benefit, low. The SSC Subpanel will evaluate methods for quantifying a time series of Atlantic cod discards from the lobster fishery and consider what modifications are needed to incorporate that discard time series into total catch accounting for the Eastern Gulf of Maine cod stock assessment. If adopted, these…
- Meeting access and accommodations: benefit, low. The meeting will be held via webinar on April 11, 2025, at 1 p.m., will be recorded, and a copy of the recording is available upon request. The meeting site is physically accessible, and requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids must be directed to the Council executive dire…

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## Sources
- [2025-04281 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/17/2025-04281/new-england-fishery-management-council-public-meeting)
- [2025-04281 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-17/pdf/2025-04281.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-04281 (as of 2026-09-30).