Comments closed August 24
Support catch limits protecting Hawaii deepwater shrimp and coral
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Hawaii, HI
- What
- These limits keep Hawaii's deepwater shrimp and precious coral from being fished beyond sustainable levels.
- Where
- Hawaii, HI
- How much
- Hawaii's deepwater shrimp populations and precious coral beds could be overharvested without enforced annual catch limits.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 24, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Federal Register ↗, read July 26, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Federal Register 2026-15018 ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedAugust 24, 2026, from Federal Register, the document’s comment close date (federalregister.gov) ↗. Read July 26, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
Samuel D. Rauch III
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service
A person signed this, not an agency. The window has closed and the signature stands, which is exactly when accountability matters.
NOAA Fisheries Directorate
Assistant Administrator of Fisheries
Short is better. You are asking the Assistant Administrator of Fisheries to answer for a decision their office made.
My name is [your name] and I'm calling from [your city and state]. Samuel D. Rauch III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service, signed the decision on Support catch limits protecting Hawaii deepwater shrimp and coral. I'm asking the NOAA Fisheries Directorate to withdraw that decision and require full environmental review before anything proceeds. Please record that I called and tell me what the office intends to do.
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What the proposal said, and what the decision did
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Protective action worth supporting
These limits keep Hawaii's deepwater shrimp and precious coral from being fished beyond sustainable levels.
What’s at risk
If we stay silent
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
NMFS proposes to implement annual catch limits (ACL) and an accountability measure (AM) for the Hawaii deepwater shrimp and precious coral fisheries for each fishing year from 2026 to 2028. As a post-season AM, NMFS proposes to determine whether the average catch of any stock from the most recent 3 years exceeds an ACL and reduce the ACL for that stock for the subsequent fishing year by the amount of any overage. The proposed ACLs and AMs are unchanged from past measures implemented for the fisheries. This proposed rule supports the long- term sustainability of Hawaii deepwater shrimp and precious coral.
The groups on this fight
2 groups predicted likely to care in Hawaii
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Hawaii, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Hawaii: They work only in Hawaii.
- National Tropical Botanical Garden
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Hawaii: Hawaii is one of the 2 states they work in.
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Who signs it
Samuel D. Rauch III
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service
Where the notice says so
The ground
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