Open access fishery
Open access fishery means the fishery composed of commercial vessels using open access gear fished pursuant to the harvest guidelines, quotas, and other management measures governing the harvest of open access allocations (detailed in 660.55) or governing the fishing activities of open access vessels (detailed in subpart F of this part). Any commercial vessel that is not registered to a limited entry permit and which takes and retains, possesses or lands groundfish is a participant in the open access groundfish fishery. (1) Directed open access fishery means that a fishing vessel is target fishing (defined at 660.11) for groundfish and is only declared into a directed open access groundfish gear type or sector as defined in 660.13(d)(4)(iv)(A). In addition to the requirements in subpart F of this part, fishing vessels participating in the directed open access fishery must be registered to a directed open access permit described at 660.25(i) and are also subject to the non-trawl logbook requirement at 660.13(a)(3). (2) Incidental open access fishery means that a fishing vessel is retaining groundfish incidentally to a non-groundfish target species (see Incidental catch or incidental species).