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Prior to the publication of this action, in the South Atlantic the transfer of harvested fish at sea was prohibited for any species under a commercial trip limit, and only two gillnets were allowed on a federally permitted Spanish mackerel vessel. In some instances the trip limit may have been exceeded with just one gillnet set, and the excess fish had to be discarded. Most of those discarded fish caught in gillnet gear die due to trauma caused during capture. This Framework Action allows a portion of a gillnet and its contents to be transferred from a vessel that has met the Spanish mackerel trip limit to another vessel that has not yet reached the trip limit. Allowing transfer at sea for federally permitted Spanish mackerel vessels using gillnet gear is intended to reduce dead discards and minimize waste when catch in one net exceeds the trip limit for the vessel. Additionally, the Framework Action modified the commercial trip limits for Atlantic king mackerel in the Florida east coast subzone. The previous system of trip limits could increase the rate of harvest causing the commercial sector to close before Lent, the most lucrative part of the fishing season. Therefore, the trip limit modifications that were implemented through the Framework Action are expected to help minimize lost opportunities to fish and optimize profitability in the king mackerel sector of the coastal migratory pelagics fishery.