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This rule implemented management measures--such as recreational possession limits, minimum fish sizes, and seasonal closures--to achieve recreational harvest limits for the 2016 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass recreational fisheries. The recreational harvest limits for these species were established in a separate rulemaking. This rule finalized the management measures the Council recommended to help ensure recreational harvest is constrained to those harvest limits. This rule also implemented modifications to the commercial scup incidental possession limits to more closely align with the current conditions of the fishery.