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    <CFRTITLE>50</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Wildlife and Fisheries</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>4</VOL>
    <DATE>2002-10-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2002-10-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Minimum fish sizes.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>648.162</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 648.162</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 50" SEQ="3">Wildlife and Fisheries</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER VI" SEQ="2">FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANICAND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION,DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 648" SEQ="1">FISHERIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart J" SEQ="0">Management Measures for the Atlantic Bluefish Fishery</PARENT>
    </ANCESTORS>
  </FDSYS>
  <SECTION>
    <SECTNO>§ 648.162</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Minimum fish sizes.</SUBJECT>
    <P>If the Council determines through its annual review or framework adjustment process that minimum fish sizes are necessary to assure that the fishing mortality rate is not exceeded, or to attain other FMP objective, such measures will be enacted through the procedure specified in § 648.160(d) or 648.165.</P>
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