---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 648.97"
title: "50"
number: "648.97"
heading: "Closed areas."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/648.97"
---

# §648.97. Closed areas.

- (a) **Oceanographer Canyon Closed Area.** No fishing vessel or person on a fishing vessel may enter, fish, or be in the area known as Oceanographer Canyon Closed Area (copies of a chart depicting this area are available from the Regional Administrator upon request), as defined by straight lines connecting the following points in the order stated, while on a monkfish DAS:
- (b) **Lydonia Canyon Closed Area.** No fishing vessel or person on a fishing vessel may enter, fish, or be in the area known as Lydonia Canyon Closed Area (copies of a chart depicting this area are available from the Regional Administrator upon request), as defined by straight lines connecting the following points in the order stated, while on a monkfish DAS:

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 21946, Apr. 28, 2005]

### Authority

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

### Source

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

### Amendments

[70 FR 21946, Apr. 28, 2005]