Reminder: On February 1, the Closed Area I (CAI) North seasonal closure goes into effect, through April 15. See below for map and coordinates.

The closure applies to all commercial and recreational vessels except:

• Vessels that are transiting; 
• Vessels fishing with exempted gears (spears, rakes, diving gear, cast nets, tongs, harpoons, weirs, dip nets, stop nets, pound nets, pots and traps, purse seines, surfclam/quahog dredge gear, pelagic hook and line, pelagic longlines, or single pelagic gillnets); 
• Vessels participating in the mid-water trawl exempted fishery; and 
• Vessels fishing with scallop dredges.

Closed Area I North Coordinates

Questions? Please contact our Sustainable Fisheries Division at 978-281-9315.