---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 622.1"
title: "50"
number: "622.1"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/622.1"
---

# §622.1. Purpose and scope.

- (a) The purpose of this part is to implement the FMPs prepared under the Magnuson-Stevens Act by the CFMC, GMFMC, and/or SAFMC listed in Table 1 of this section.
- (b) This part governs conservation and management of species included in the FMPs in or from the Caribbean, Gulf, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Atlantic EEZ, unless otherwise specified, as indicated in Table 1 of this section. For the FMPs noted in the following table, conservation and management extends to adjoining state waters for the purposes of data collection and monitoring.
- (c) This part also governs the importation of spiny lobster into Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- (d) This part also governs importation of spiny lobster into any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

## Notes

### Amendments

[78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, as amended at 78 FR 78775, Dec. 27, 2013; 81 FR 1792, Jan. 13, 2016; 82 FR 34580, 34594 July 25, 2017; 82 FR 40075, Aug. 24, 2017; 84 FR 4736, Feb. 19, 2019; 85 FR 6823, Feb. 6, 2020; 85 FR 10339, Feb. 24, 2020; 87 FR 56214, Sept. 13, 2022; 90 FR 38003, Aug. 7, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, as amended at 78 FR 78775, Dec. 27, 2013; 81 FR 1792, Jan. 13, 2016; 82 FR 34580, 34594 July 25, 2017; 82 FR 40075, Aug. 24, 2017; 84 FR 4736, Feb. 19, 2019; 85 FR 6823, Feb. 6, 2020; 85 FR 10339, Feb. 24, 2020; 87 FR 56214, Sept. 13, 2022; 90 FR 38003, Aug. 7, 2025]