Code of Maine Rules › 13 - DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES › 188 - MARINE RESOURCES - GENERAL › Chapter 34 - GROUNDFISH REGULATIONS › Section 188-34-01 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Allocated groundfish species.
"Allocated groundfish species" means cod, witch flounder, American plaice,
				yellowtail flounder, haddock, pollock, winter flounder, redfish, and white hake
				for the purposes of this management plan
B.
Bait gillnet
. A "Bait
				Gillnet" is a gillnet with diamond or square stretch mesh, measuring less than
				3.5 inches throughout the entire net, is suspended in the water column, and has
				a maximum length of 2,000 feet.
C.
Charter or party boat
. A "charter or party boat" is any vessel
				that carries passengers for hire to engage in recreational fishing
				activities.
D.
Coastal
				waters.
"Coastal waters" means all waters of the State within the rise
				and fall of the tide out to the limits of the exclusive economic zone as shown
				on the most recently published Federal Government nautical chart, but does not
				include areas above any fishway or dam when that fishway or dam is the dividing
				line between tidewater and fresh water.
E.
Cod end
. The "cod end" is the
				terminal section of a trawl net in which captured fish may
				accumulate.
F.
Commercial
				catch
. "Commercial catch" means all multispecies taken with any type of
				gear except multispecies taken for personal use by hand-held hook and line gear
				or any Atlantic Halibut taken in accordance with Chapter 34.07 D (5).
G.
Electronic monitoring maximized
				retention model.
The "electronic monitoring maximized retention model"
				with respect to the groundfish sector monitoring program, means a program in
				which all eligible trips are electronically monitored; fish must be handled in
				view of cameras; allowed discarding must occur at controlled points in view of
				cameras; all allocated groundfish species stocks must be retained; electronic
				monitoring is used to verify compliance; and offloads are subject to
				observation by dockside monitors.
H.
Groundfish
. "Groundfish"
				means all demersal species including but not limited to the following:
Common English Name
Scientific Name
Monkfish (Goosefish)
Lophius americanus
American Plaice (Dab)
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Atlantic Cod
Gadus morhua
Atlantic Halibut
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Atlantic Searobins
Prionotus spp.
Atlantic Tomcod
Microgadus tomcod
Atlantic Wolfish
Anarhichas lupus
Cunner
Tautogolabrus adspersus
Cusk (Tusk)
Brosme brosme
Greenland Halibut
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Haddock
Melanogrammus aeglefinus
North Atlantic redfishes
Sabastes spp.
Ocean Pout
acrozoarces americanus
Pollock (Saithe)
Pollachius virens
Red Hake
Urophycis chuss
Redfish
Sabastes marinus
Sandeels (Sand lances)
Ammodytes spp.
Sculpins
Myoxocephalus spp.
Silver Hake(whiting)
Merluccius bilinearis
Summer Flounder (fluke)
Paralichthys dentatus
White Hake
Urophycis tenuis
Windowpane Flounder
Scophthalmus aquosus
Winter Flounder (Lemon
							 sole/Blackback)
Pseudopleuronectes americanus
Witch Flounder (Gray sole)
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Wolffishes (catfishes)
Anarhichas spp.
Yellowtail Flounder
Limanda ferruginea
I.
Marine species
. "Marine species" means all marine animals except
				lobster, shellfish, marine worms, and elvers.
J.
Pectoral length
. "Pectoral
				length" is the measurement taken from the base of the pectoral fin where it
				joins the fish's body to the tip of the fish's tail.
K.
Recreational fishing
.
				"Recreational fishing" means fishing that is not intended to, nor does it
				result in the barter, trade, or sale of fish.
L.
Recreational fishing vessel
.
				A "Recreational fishing vessel" means any vessel from which no groundfish
				harvest other than recreational fishing, is conducted. Charter and party boats
				are not considered recreational fishing vessels.
M.
Regulated species
. "Regulated
				species" means cod, witch flounder, American plaice, Atlantic halibut,
				yellowtail flounder, haddock, pollock, winter flounder, windowpane flounder,
				redfish, ocean pout and white hake for the purposes of this management plan.
N.
Sink gillnet
. A
				"Sink Gillnet" is a gillnet that is fished on or near the bottom in the lower
				third of the water column.
O.
Territorial waters
. "Territorial waters" means all waters of the
				State within the rise and fall of the tide seaward to the 3-nautical mile line
				as shown on the most recently published Federal Government nautical chart, but
				does not include areas above any fishway or dam when that fishway or dam is the
				dividing line between tidewater and fresh water.
P.
Total length
. "Total length"
				is the measurement taken from the tip of the snout to the tip of the
				tail.