Logbooks would be required for US fishing vessels using troll or handline gear to fish for pelagic management unit species (PMUS) in waters of the US exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around the US Pacific remote island areas (PRIA). The PRIA are the distant and mostly uninhabited islands in the central Pacific Ocean consist- ing of Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Wake Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Midway Atoll.
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