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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
TABLE 15FINAL 2021 AND 2022 APPORTIONMENT OF PACIFIC HALIBUT PROHIBITED SPECIES CATCH LIMITS BETWEEN
THE TRAWL GEAR DEEP-WATER SPECIES FISHERY AND THE SHALLOW-WATER SPECIES FISHERY CATEGORIESContinued Values are in metric tons Shallow-water
Deep-water 1

Season Total

Total 1,706

1 Vessels
participating in cooperatives in the Central GOA Rockfish Program will receive 191 mt of the third season July 1 through August 1
deep-water species fishery halibut PSC apportionment.
2 There is no apportionment between trawl shallow-water and deep-water species fishery categories during the fifth season October 1 through December 31.

Section 679.21d2iB requires that the other hook-and-line fishery halibut PSC limit apportionment to vessels using hook-and-line gear must be apportioned between CVs and CPs in accordance with 679.21d2iii in conjunction with these harvest specifications. A comprehensive description and example of the calculations necessary to apportion the other hook-and-line fishery halibut PSC limit between the hook-and-line CV
and CP sectors were included in the proposed rule to implement Amendment 83 to the FMP 76 FR
44700, July 26, 2011 and are not repeated here.
Pursuant to 679.21d2iii, the hook-and-line halibut PSC limit for the other hook-and-line fishery is apportioned between the CV and CP
sectors in proportion to the total Western and Central GOA Pacific cod allocations, which vary annually based on the proportion of the Pacific cod biomass between the Western, Central,
and Eastern GOA. Pacific cod is apportioned among these three management areas based on the percentage of overall biomass per area, as calculated in the 2020 Pacific cod stock assessment. Updated information in the final 2020 SAFE report describes this distributional calculation, which allocates ABC among GOA regulatory areas on the basis of the three most recent stock surveys. For 2021 and 2022, the distribution of the total GOA Pacific cod ABC is 32 percent to the Western GOA, 59 percent to the Central GOA, and 9 percent to the Eastern GOA.
Therefore, the calculations made in accordance with 679.21d2iii incorporate the most recent information on GOA Pacific cod distribution with respect to establishing the annual halibut PSC limits for the CV and CP
hook-and-line sectors. Additionally, the annual halibut PSC limits for both the CV and CP sectors of the other hookand-line fishery are divided into three seasonal apportionments, using seasonal
percentages of 86 percent, 2 percent, and 12 percent.
For 2021 and 2022, NMFS apportions halibut PSC limits of 144 mt and 113 mt to the hook-and-line CV and hook-andline CP sectors, respectively. Table 16
lists the final 2021 and 2022
apportionments of halibut PSC limits between the hook-and-line CV and the hook-and-line CP sectors of the other hook-and-line fishery.
No later than November 1 of each year, NMFS will calculate the projected unused amount of halibut PSC limit by either of the CV or CP hook-and-line sectors of the other hook-and-line fishery for the remainder of the year.
The projected unused amount of halibut PSC limit is made available to the other hook-and-line sector for the remainder of that fishing year 679.21d2iiiC, if NMFS
determines that an additional amount of halibut PSC is necessary for that sector to continue its directed fishing operations.

TABLE 16FINAL 2021 AND 2022 APPORTIONMENTS OF THE OTHER HOOK-AND-LINE FISHERY ANNUAL HALIBUT PROHIBITED SPECIES CATCH ALLOWANCE BETWEEN THE HOOK-AND-LINE GEAR CATCHER VESSEL AND CATCHER/PROCESSOR SECTORS
Values are in metric tons Hook-and-line sector
257

Catcher Vessel

144

Catcher/Processor

113

Estimates of Halibut Biomass and Stock Condition
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Sector annual amount
Other than DSR allowance
The IPHC annually assesses the abundance and potential yield of the Pacific halibut stock using all available data from the commercial and sport fisheries, other removals, and scientific surveys. Additional information on the Pacific halibut stock assessment may be found in the IPHCs 2020 Pacific halibut stock assessment December 2020,
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available on the IPHC website at www.iphc.int. The IPHC considered the 2020 Pacific halibut stock assessment at its January 2021 annual meeting when it set the 2021 commercial halibut fishery catch limits.
Halibut Discard Mortality Rates To monitor halibut bycatch mortality allowances and apportionments, the Regional Administrator uses observed halibut incidental catch rates, halibut
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discard mortality rates DMRs, and estimates of groundfish catch to project when a fisherys halibut bycatch mortality allowance or seasonal apportionment is reached. Halibut incidental catch rates are based on observers estimates of halibut incidental catch in the groundfish fishery. DMRs are estimates of the proportion of incidentally caught halibut that do not survive after being returned to the sea. The cumulative
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