Amendment No. 10 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico.

This Amendment of the Fishery Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico requires the installation of NMFS-certified Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD's) that reduce the bycatch of finfish by at least 30% by weight in each net used aboard vessels trawling for shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico EEZ east of Cape San Blas, Florida. Excepted are vessels trawling for groundfish or butterfish. A single try net with a headrope length of 16 feet or less per vessel and no more than two rigid-frame roller trawls limited to 16 feet or less, such as those used in the Big Bend area of Florida are also exempted. The Amendment also concerns the methodology to determine annual finfish and invertebrate bycatch.