Effective September 2, 2010 at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 p.m. central time), NOAA will reopen 5,130 square miles (8,256 sq km) of area it had previously closed to commercial and recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in response to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The area off the Florida panhandle that was previously open only for finfish, is now open for all fishing.

http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sf/deepwater_horizon/FB10-077_Reopening_nearshore%20090210.pdf.

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