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NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 43 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (Amendment 43). In November 2017, NMFS implemented an emergency rule that set the 2017 commercial and recreational annual catch limit for red snapper in the South Atlantic at 42,510 fish. Prior to the recent emergency action, the annual catch limit was zero and harvest was not allowed since 2014. The actions in Amendment 43 will remove the process and equation used to determine the red snapper annual catch limit as specified in Amendment 28 to the Snapper-Grouper Fishery Management Plan. In addition, this action will specify a total annual catch limit, a commercial annual catch limit, and a recreational annual catch limit to allow harvest of red snapper beginning in 2018. The action is expected to reduce, to the extent practicable, existing adverse socio-economic impacts to fishermen and fishing communities that utilize the red snapper portion of the snapper-grouper fishery, without overfishing--while continuing to rebuild the stock as per the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.