---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 648.166"
title: "50"
number: "648.166"
heading: "Bluefish gear restrictions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/648.166"
---

# §648.166. Bluefish gear restrictions.


If the MAFMC determines through its annual review or framework adjustment process that gear restrictions are necessary to ensure that the ACL is not exceeded, or to attain other FMP objectives, such measures, subject to the gear other than trawls and gillnets restrictions in [§ 648.162](/cfr/50/648.162.md) regarding specifications, will be enacted through the procedure specified in § [648.162(c)](/cfr/50/648.162.md?p=c) or [648.167](/cfr/50/648.167.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[76 FR 60641, Sept. 29, 2011]

### Source

Source: 65 FR 45852, July 26, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 61 FR 34968, July 3, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 60641, Sept. 29, 2011]