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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 36 / Thursday, February 25, 2021 / Rules and Regulations TABLE 192021 AND 2022 DIRECTED FISHING CLOSURES 1Continued Groundfish and halibut amounts are in metric tons. Crab amounts are in number of animals.

Area
2021
Incidental catch allowance
2022
Incidental catch allowance
Sector
Species
Non-amendment 80, CDQ, and BSAI trawl limited access.

ICA yellowfin sole

4,000

4,000

Rock sole/flathead sole/other flatfishhalibut mortality, red king crab Zone 1, C. opilio COBLZ, C. bairdi Zone 1 and 2.
Turbot/arrowtooth/Kamchatka/sablefishhalibut mortality, red king crab Zone 1, C. opilio COBLZ, C. bairdi Zone 1 and 2.
Rockfishred king crab Zone 1

BSAI trawl limited access

1 Maximum
retainable amounts may be found in Table 11 to 50 CFR part 679.
rockfish includes all Sebastes and Sebastolobus species except for dark rockfish, Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, blackspotted/rougheye rockfish, and shortraker rockfish.
2 Other
Closures implemented under the final 2020 and 2021 BSAI harvest specifications for groundfish 85 FR
13553, March 9, 2020 remain effective under authority of these final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications and until the date specified in those notices. Closures are posted at the following website under the Alaska filter for Management Area: https www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
rules-and-announcements/bulletins.
While these closures are in effect, the maximum retainable amounts at 679.20e and f apply at any time during a fishing trip. These closures to directed fishing are in addition to closures and prohibitions found at 50
CFR part 679.
Listed AFA Catcher/Processor Sideboard Limits Pursuant to 679.64a, the Regional Administrator is responsible for restricting the ability of listed AFA CPs to engage in directed fishing for
groundfish species other than pollock to protect participants in other groundfish fisheries from adverse effects resulting from the AFA fishery and from fishery cooperatives in the directed pollock fishery. These restrictions are set out as sideboard limits on catch. On February 8, 2019, NMFS published a final rule 84 FR 2723 that implemented regulations to prohibit non-exempt AFA
CPs from directed fishing for groundfish species or species groups subject to sideboard limits see 679.20d1ivD and Table 54 to 50
CFR part 679. Section 679.64a1v exempts AFA CPs from a yellowfin sole sideboard limit because the final 2021
and 2022 aggregate ITAC of yellowfin sole assigned to the Amendment 80
sector and BSAI trawl limited access sector is greater than 125,000 mt.
Section 679.64a2 and Tables 40
and 41 to 50 CFR part 679 establish a formula for calculating PSC sideboard limits for halibut and crab caught by
listed AFA CPs. The basis for these sideboard limits is described in detail in the final rules implementing the major provisions of the AFA 67 FR 79692, December 30, 2002 and Amendment 80
72 FR 52668, September 14, 2007. PSC
species listed in Table 20 that are caught by listed AFA CPs participating in any groundfish fishery other than pollock will accrue against the final 2021 and 2022 PSC sideboard limits for the listed AFA CPs. Sections 679.21b4iii, e3v, and e7 authorize NMFS to close directed fishing for groundfish other than pollock for listed AFA CPs once a final 2021 or 2022 PSC sideboard limit listed in Table 20 is reached.
Pursuant to 679.21b1iiC and e3iiC, halibut or crab PSC by listed AFA CPs while fishing for pollock will accrue against the PSC allowances annually specified for the pollock/Atka mackerel/other species fishery categories, according to 679.21b1iiB and e3iv.

TABLE 20FINAL 2021 AND 2022 BSAI AFA LISTED CATCHER/PROCESSOR PROHIBITED SPECIES SIDEBOARD LIMITS

PSC species and
Ratio of PSC
catch to total PSC

area 1

Halibut mortality BSAI
Red king crab Zone 1
C. opilio COBLZ
C. bairdi Zone 1
C. bairdi Zone 2
1 Refer
2021 and 2022
PSC available to trawl vessels after subtraction of PSQ 2

n/a 0.0070
0.1530
0.1400
0.0500

n/a 86,621
6,422,313
875,140
2,652,210

2021 and 2022
AFA catcher/
processor sideboard limit 2
286
606
982,614
122,520
132,611

to 679.2 for definitions of areas.
amounts are in metric tons of halibut mortality. Crab amounts are in numbers of animals.

2 Halibut
AFA Catcher Vessel Sideboard Limits Pursuant to 679.64b, the Regional Administrator is responsible for
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