---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 622.376"
title: "50"
number: "622.376"
heading: "Gear identification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/622.376"
---

# §622.376. Gear identification.

- (a) **Spanish mackerel gillnet buoys.** On board a vessel with a valid Spanish mackerel permit that is fishing for Spanish mackerel in, or that possesses Spanish mackerel in or from, the South Atlantic EEZ off Florida north of 25°20.4′ N. lat., which is a line directly east from the Miami-Dade/Monroe County, FL, boundary, the float line of each gillnet possessed, including any net in use, must have a maximum of nine distinctive floats, i.e., different from the usual net buoys, spaced uniformly at a distance of 100 yd (91.4 m) or less. Each such distinctive float must display the official number of the vessel.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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