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On September 15, 2016, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument was designated for waters of the North Atlantic (Presidential Proclamation 9496; 81 FR 65161; September 21, 2016).  This Proclamation prohibited commercial fishing within the monument, with a 7-year exemption for the American lobster and Atlantic deep-sea red crab fisheries.  In June 2020, Monument prohibitions were revised via Proclamation 10049 (85 FR 35793, June 11, 2020) removing commercial fishing from the list of prohibited activities set forth in the 2016 Proclamation, and again in October 2021 via Proclamation 10287 (86 FR 57349; October 15, 2021) restoring the commercial fishing prohibition.  On February 16, 2024, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service published a final rule (89 FR 12282) conforming the U.S. fishing regulations at 50 CFR 600 to Proclamations 9496 and 10287.  On February 6, 2026, Proclamation Unleashing Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic again removed the Monument’s commercial fishing prohibition.  NMFS is implementing this action pursuant to the rulemaking authority(s) under section 305(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to carry out section 303(a)(1)(C).