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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules
CA rock crab pot fishery from 124
to 113 vessels/persons;
WA/OR/CA hagfish pot fishery from 54 to 63 vessels/persons;
WA/OR shrimp pot/trap fishery from 54 to 28 vessels/persons;
WA Puget Sound Dungeness crab pot/trap fishery from 249 to 145 vessels/
persons;
HI crab trap fishery from 5 to 4
vessels/persons;
HI fish trap fishery from 9 to 4
vessels/persons;
HI lobster trap fishery from <3 to none recorded vessels/persons;
HI shrimp trap fishery from 10 to 3
vessels/persons;
HI crab net fishery from 4 to none recorded vessels/persons;
HI kona crab loop net fishery from 33 to 20 vessels/persons;
American Samoa bottomfish handline fishery from fewer than 20 to 9 vessels/persons;
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands bottomfish fishery from 28 to 11 vessels/persons;
Guam bottomfish fishery from >300
to 67 vessels/persons;
HI aku boat, pole and line fishery from <3 to none recorded vessels/
persons;
HI bottomfish handline fishery from 578 to 385 vessels/persons;
HI inshore handline fishery from 357 to 206 vessels/persons;
HI pelagic handline fishery from 534 to 300 vessels/persons;
CA swordfish harpoon fishery from 6 to 21 vessels/persons;
HI bullpen trap fishery from 3 to none recorded vessels/persons;
HI black coral diving fishery from <3 to none recorded vessels/persons;
HI fish pond fishery from 5 to none recorded vessels/persons;
HI handpick fishery from 46 to 25
vessels/persons;
HI lobster diving fishery from 19 to 12 vessels/persons;
HI spearfishing fishery from 163 to 82 vessels/persons; and HI aquarium collecting fishery from 90 to 34 vessels/persons.

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List of Species and/or Stocks Incidentally Killed or Injured in the Pacific Ocean NMFS proposes to add the Eastern North Pacific stock of gray whale to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II AK Prince William Sound salmon drift gillnet fishery based on a self-reported serious injury in 2018 Carretta et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add three stocks to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II AK
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trawl fishery: 1 Arctic stock of ringed seal, 2 Central North Pacific stock of humpback whale and 3 Western North Pacific stock of humpback whale. In 2017, there was an observed mortality of a ringed seal Arctic stock Muto et al., 2021. In 2018 one humpback whale mortality was observed in the AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands pollock trawl fishery. This mortality occurred in an area of humpback whale stock overlap and consistent with NMFS Guidelines for Assessing Marine Mammal Stocks GAMMS, the serious injury was assigned to both the Western North Pacific and Central North Pacific stocks Muto et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to add the U.S. stock of California sea lion to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II CA spiny lobster fishery. In 2019, a California sea lion was reported entangled in 40
kilograms of lobster pot gear near Santa Barbara, CA. The gear was removed after sedating of the animal Carretta et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to add the California stock of Northern elephant seal to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II AK Gulf of Alaska sablefish longline fishery based on an observed serious injury in 2017
Carretta et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add both the Western U.S. stock of Steller sea lion and North Kodiak stock of harbor seal to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK
Kodiak salmon purse seine fishery. In 2018, a dead stranded Steller sea lion was reported entangled in commercial Kodiak salmon seine net Muto et al., 2021. Also in 2018, a harbor seal mortality was documented in the barrier net of the salmon purse seine fishery Young et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea transient stock of killer whale to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Greenland turbot longline fishery based on observed mortality in 2015 Muto et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to add the Clarence Strait stock of harbor seal to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Gulf of Alaska halibut longline fishery based on an observed mortality in 2018 Young et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add the Cook Inlet/
Shelikof Strait stock of harbor seal to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod longline fishery based on an observed mortality in 2018
Young et al., 2020.

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NMFS proposes to add the California stock of Northern elephant seal to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Atka mackerel trawl fishery based on an observed serious injury in 2018 Carretta et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add three stocks to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK
Gulf of Alaska flatfish trawl fishery. The three stocks are: 1 Cook Inlet/Shelikof Strait stock of harbor seal, 2 North Kodiak stock of harbor seal, and 3
South Kodiak stock of harbor seal. In 2017, there were three observed mortalities of harbor seals one from the North Kodiak stock and two from the Cook Inlet/Shelikof Strait stock in the Gulf of Alaska flatfish trawl fishery. In 2018, there was one observed mortality of a harbor seal from South Kodiak stock Young et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add the North Pacific stock of sperm whale to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands sablefish pot fishery based on an observed mortality in 2018 Muto et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to add the U.S. stock of California sea lion to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III WA/OR/CA
groundfish/finfish hook and line fishery. In 2017, a California sea lion depredated gear from the nearshore hook and line fishery and in the process carried the away the gear with seven hooks attached Carretta et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to add the Central North Pacific stock of humpback whale to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK/
WA/OR/CA commercial passenger fishing vessel fishery based on an observed vessel strike that was determined to be a serious injury in 2017 Young et al., 2020.
NMFS proposes to add the unknown stock of striped dolphin to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II American Samoa longline fishery based on an observed serious injury in 2018.
NMFS proposes to remove the Alaska resident stock of killer whale from the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Greenland turbot longline fishery based on no recently observed mortalities or injuries.
NMFS proposes to remove the Alaska stock of spotted seal from the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category III AK Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Pacific cod
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