Amendment 3 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Management Measures for Dolphin and Wahoo

Amendment 3 would establish size limits and recreational bag limits for dolphin and wahoo in federal waters around Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John to ensure undersized individuals have adequate time to mature and reproduce and to take a precautionary approach to management to protect against overfishing for resources with limited management structure.

Specifically, Amendment 3 would establish a 24” fork length minimum size limit for dolphinfish and a 32” fork length minimum size limit for wahoo in federal waters. Additionally, Amendment 3 would establish the following recreational bag limits per person/per vessel, whichever is less, per day: 5/15 dolphinfish and 5/10 wahoo in federal waters around Puerto Rico and 10/32 dolphinfish and 2/10 wahoo in federal waters around St. Croix and St. Thomas/St. John.