| Fishery quotas are frequently used method of limiting directed fishing effort on a species or group of species. The South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Councils have recommended numerous quotas in the management plans they have developed to submitted to the National Marine Fisheries Service. In addition, quotas have also been implemented for sharks and swordfish in the Highly Migratory Fishery Management Plan.
Most of these quotas are monitored by landings information submitted by seafood dealers that are selected to report. The reporting frequencies varies for the quota. For red snapper, a report is to be submitted at the end of each 10 day open season. For snowy grouper, golden tilefish, greater amberjack, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, and wreckfish dealer are requireed to report monthly. For swordfish and shark quotas, dealers are required to submit a report twice a month. For the remaining fishery quotas, the landings statistics collected by the general canvass and Gulf shrimp statistics programs are used to monitor them.
The Southeast Fisheries Science Center is tasked with the responsibility for monitoring many of these quotas and providing this information to the program office within the National Marine Fisheries Service that is responsible for closing the fishery when the quota has been reached. The following are the quota that the Southeast Fisheries Science Center monitors:
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