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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
Part-Time Limited Access Allocations and Trip Possession Limits for Scallop Access Areas Table 7 provides the limited access part-time allocations for all of the access
areas for the 2021 fishing year and the first 60 days of the 2022 fishing year.
These allocations can be landed in as many trips as needed, so long as the
vessels do not exceed the possession limit also in Table 8 on any one trip.

TABLE 7SCALLOP ACCESS AREA PART-TIME LIMITED ACCESS VESSEL POUNDAGE ALLOCATIONS AND TRIP POSSESSION
LIMITS FOR 2021 AND 2022
2022 Scallop allocation default
Rotational access area
Scallop possession limit
2021 Scallop allocation
Closed Area II or Nantucket Lightship-South 1.
Mid-Atlantic

14,400 lb 6,532 kg per trip

14,400 lb 6,532 kg

0 lb 0 kg

14,400 lb 6,532 kg

7,200 lb 3,266 kg
Total

28,800 lb 13,063 kg

7,200 lb 3,266 kg
1 Part-time
vessels must choose to take this trip in either Closed Area II or Nantucket Lightship-South-Deep. Once a vessel declares a trip into either area, the entirety of the 14,400-lb 6,532-kg allocation can only be taken from the same area.

Closed Area I RSA-Only Because of the limited amount of biomass in the CAI to support a full limited access trip, Framework 33 will not allocate any landings from CAI to the limited access fleet. CAI will only be available for the LAGC access area trips and RSA compensation fishing.
LAGC Measures 1. ACL and IFQ Allocation for LAGC
Vessels with IFQ Permits. For LAGC
vessels with IFQ permits, this action implements a 1,481-mt ACL for 2021
and a 1,360-mt default ACL for 2022
see Table 1. These sub-ACLs have no associated regulatory or management requirements but provide a ceiling on
overall landings by the LAGC IFQ fleets.
The annual allocation to the LAGC IFQonly fleet for fishing years 2021 and 2022 based on APL is 863 mt for 2021
and 648 mt for 2022 see Table 1. Each vessels IFQ is calculated from these allocations based on APL.
2. ACL and IFQ Allocation for Limited Access Scallop Vessels with IFQ
Permits. For limited access scallop vessels with IFQ permits, this action implements a 148-mt ACL for 2021 and a default 136-mt ACL for 2022 see Table 1. These sub-ACLs have no associated regulatory or management requirements but provide a ceiling on overall landings by this fleet. If the fleet were to reach this ceiling, any overages would be deducted from the following
years sub-ACL. The annual allocation to limited access vessels with IFQ
permits is 86 mt for 2021 and 65 mt for 2022 see Table 1. Each vessels IFQ is calculated from these allocations based on APL.
3. LAGC IFQ Trip Allocations for Scallop Access Areas. Framework 33
allocates LAGC IFQ vessels a fleet-wide number of trips in CAI, NLSSD, and MAAA for fishing year 2021 and default trips in the MAAA for fishing year 2022
see Table 8. The scallop catch associated with the total number of trips for all areas combined 2,283 trips for fishing year 2021 is equivalent to the 5.5
percent of total projected catch from access areas.

TABLE 8FISHING YEARS 2021 AND 2022 LAGC IFQ TRIP ALLOCATIONS FOR SCALLOP ACCESS AREAS
Scallop access area
2022 1

2021

Closed Area I
Nantucket Lightship-South-Deep
Mid-Atlantic

856
856
571

0
0 571

Total

2,283

571

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LAGC IFQ access area trip allocations for the 2022 fishing year are subject to change through a future specifications action or framework adjustment.

4. Northern Gulf of Maine NGOM
Total Allowable Catch TAC. This action implements a 175,000-lb 79,379kg NGOM TAC for fishing year 2021
and a 74,000-lb 33,566-kg default NGOM TAC for fishing year 2022. The final rule for NGOM portions of Framework 29 83 FR 12857; March 26, 2018 developed a methodology for splitting the NGOM TAC between the LAGC and the limited access fleets.
Framework 33 continues splitting the TAC using this methodology. The limited access portion of the TAC may only be fished by vessels participating
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in the RSA program that are participating in a project that has been allocated NGOM RSA allocation. The LAGC portion of the TAC may be fished by NGOM and LAGC IFQ vessels on trips with a 200-lb 90.7-kg possession limit until the TAC has been harvested.
Table 12 describes the division of the TAC for the 2021 and 2022 default fishing years.
During the 2019 fishing year the LAGC fleet exceeded its portion of the NGOM TAC by 3,278 lb 1,487 kg. This triggers a pound-for-pound deduction to the LAGC portion of the NGOM TAC to
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account for the overage. Because final catch accounting data for the 2019
fishing year was not available in time to implement this deduction in the 2020
fishing year, the LAGC portion of the NGOM TAC for the 2021 fishing year is reduced by 3,278 lb 1,487 kg to account for the overage. The resulting LAGC NGOM TAC is 119,222 lb 54,078
kg and the total 2021 NGOM TAC is 171,722 lb 77,892 kg.

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