[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR648.20]

[Page 335]
 
                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 648--FISHERIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B--Management Measures for the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and 
                          Butterfish Fisheries
 
Sec. 648.20  Maximum optimum yield (OYs).


    The OYs specified pursuant to Sec. 648.21 during a fishing year may 
not exceed the following amounts:
    (a) Mackerel--that quantity of mackerel that is less than or equal 
to the allowable biological catch (ABC) in U.S. waters specified 
pursuant to Sec. 648.21.
    (b) Loligo--the catch associated with a fishing mortality rate of 
Fmax.
    (c) Illex--catch associated with a fishing mortality rate of 
FMSY.
    (d) Butterfish--the catch associated with a fishing mortality rate 
of FMSY.

[61 FR 34968, July 3, 1996, as amended at 62 FR 8637, Feb. 26, 1997; 64 
FR 57593, Oct. 26, 1999]