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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 36 / Thursday, February 25, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
fishery has a cascading effect on other fisheries by freeing-up fishing vessels, allowing them to move from closed fisheries to open ones, increasing the fishing capacity in those open fisheries, and causing them to close at an accelerated pace.
In fisheries subject to declining sideboard limits, a failure to implement the updated sideboard limits before initial seasons end could deny the intended economic protection to the non-sideboard limited sectors.
Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboard limits, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboardlimited sectors.
If the final harvest specifications are not effective by March 6, 2021, which is the start of the 2021 Pacific halibut season as specified by the IPHC, the fixed gear sablefish fishery will not begin concurrently with the Pacific halibut IFQ season. Delayed effectiveness of this action would result in confusion for sablefish harvesters and economic harm from unnecessary discard of sablefish that are caught along with Pacific halibut, as both fixed
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gear sablefish and Pacific halibut are managed under the same IFQ program.
Immediate effectiveness of the final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications will allow the sablefish IFQ fishery to begin concurrently with the Pacific halibut IFQ season.
Finally, immediate effectiveness also would provide the fishing industry the earliest possible opportunity to plan and conduct its fishing operations with respect to new information about TAC
limits. Therefore, NMFS finds good cause to waive the 30-day delay in the date of effectiveness under 5 U.S.C.
553d3.

limits and associated management measures for groundfish during the 2021
and 2022 fishing years and is taken in accordance with the FMP prepared by the Council pursuant to the MagnusonStevens Act. This action directly affects all fishermen who participate in the BSAI fisheries. The specific amounts of OFL, ABC, TAC, and PSC amounts are provided in tables to assist the reader.
NMFS will announce closures of directed fishing in the Federal Register and information bulletins released by the Alaska Region. Affected fishermen should keep themselves informed of such closures.

Small Entity Compliance Guide
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 16 U.S.C.
1540f; 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; 16 U.S.C.
3631 et seq.; Pub. L. 105277; Pub. L. 106
31; Pub. L. 106554; Pub. L. 108199; Pub.
L. 108447; Pub. L. 109241; Pub. L. 109
479.

This final rule is a plain language guide to assist small entities in complying with this final rule as required by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. This final rules primary purpose is to announce the final 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications and prohibited species bycatch allowances for the groundfish fisheries of the BSAI. This action is necessary to establish harvest
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Dated: February 17, 2021.
Samuel D. Rauch, III
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service.
FR Doc. 202103564 Filed 22421; 8:45 am BILLING CODE 351022P

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