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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules
List of Species and/or Stocks Incidentally Killed or Injured on the High Seas
NMFS proposes to remove the Central North Pacific stock of humpback whale and Hawaii stock of pygmy killer whale from the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category I Western Pacific Pelagic longline fishery HI deep-set component. From 20142018, there were no observed mortalities or injuries of these two stocks in the HI deep-set component of the Western Pacific Pelagic longline fishery Carretta et al., 2021, Muto et al., 2021.
NMFS proposes to remove three stocks from the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II Western Pacific Pelagic longline fishery HI shallow-set component. The three stocks are: 1
Hawaii stock of Blainvilles beaked whale, 2 unknown stock of Mesoplodon species, and 3 Hawaii stock of rough-toothed dolphin. From 20142018, there were no observed moralities or injuries of these stocks in the HI shallow-set component of the Western Pacific Pelagic longline fishery Carretta et al., 2021.

NMFS proposes to add the following 18 stocks to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery based on observed and fishermen self-reported mortalities and injuries from 2014
through 2020: 1 Hawaii pelagic stock of bottlenose dolphin, 2 unknown stock of blue whale, 3 Hawaii stock of Brydes whale, 4 Hawaii pelagic stock of false killer whale, 5 Hawaii stock of fin whale, 6 unknown stock of humpback whale, 7 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, 8 California stock of long-beaked common dolphin, 9
unknown stock of melon-headed whale, 10 Hawaii stock of minke whale, 11
unknown stock of pantropical spotted dolphin, 12 Hawaii stock of pygmy killer whale, 13 unknown stock of Rissos dolphin, 14 unknown stock of rough-toothed dolphin, 15 Hawaii stock of sei whale, 16 unknown stock of short-finned pilot whale, 17 Hawaii stock of sperm whale, and 18
unknown stock of spinner dolphin.
NMFS proposes to add Ginkgotoothed beaked whale to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured in the Category II Western Pacific Pelagic longline fishery HI
shallow-set component. An observed entanglement that occurred in 2014 was originally added as an unknown stock of Mesoplodon species to the list of species/stocks incidentally killed or injured. This observed entanglement was later updated to be a Ginkgotoothed beaked whale.

List of Fisheries The following tables set forth the list of U.S. commercial fisheries according to their classification under section 118
of the MMPA. Table 1 lists commercial fisheries in the Pacific Ocean including Alaska, Table 2 lists commercial fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, Table 3 lists commercial fisheries on the high seas, and Table 4 lists fisheries affected by TRPs or TRTs.
In Tables 1 and 2, the estimated number of vessels or persons participating in fisheries operating within U.S. waters is expressed in terms of the number of active participants in the fishery, when possible. If this information is not available, the estimated number of vessels or persons licensed for a particular fishery is provided. If no recent information is available on the number of participants, vessels, or persons licensed in a fishery, then the number from the most recent LOF is used for the estimated number of vessels or persons in the fishery. NMFS
acknowledges that, in some cases, these estimates may be inflations of actual effort. For example, the State of Hawaii does not issue fishery-specific licenses, and the number of participants reported in the LOF represents the number of commercial marine license holders who reported using a particular fishing gear type/method at least once in a given year, without considering how many times the gear was used. For these fisheries, effort by a single participant is counted the same whether the
Category II
Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery from 26 to 20
HSFCA permits;
Pacific highly migratory species handline/pole and line fishery from 43
to 44 HSFCA permits;
South Pacific albacore troll handline/pole and line fishery from 10
to 9 HSFCA permits;
South Pacific albacore troll fishery from 18 to 20 HSFCA permits; South Pacific tuna troll fishery from 1 to 0
HSFCA permits;
Western Pacific pelagic troll fishery from 4 to 6 HSFCA permits;
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fisherman used the gear only once or every day. In the Mid-Atlantic and New England fisheries, the numbers represent the potential effort for each fishery, given the multiple gear types for which several state permits may allow.
Changes made to Mid-Atlantic and New England fishery participants will not affect observer coverage or bycatch estimates, as observer coverage and bycatch estimates are based on vessel trip reports and landings data. Tables 1
and 2 serve to provide a description of the fisherys potential effort state and Federal. If NMFS is able to extract more accurate information on the gear types used by state permit holders in the future, the numbers will be updated to reflect this change. For additional information on fishing effort in fisheries found on Table 1 or 2, contact the relevant regional office contact information included above in Where can I find more information about the LOF and the MMAP? section.
For high seas fisheries, Table 3 lists the number of valid HSFCA permits currently held. Although this likely overestimates the number of active participants in many of these fisheries, the number of valid HSFCA permits is the most reliable data on the potential effort in high seas fisheries at this time.
As noted previously in this LOF, the number of HSFCA permits listed in Table 3 for the high seas components of fisheries that also operate within U.S.
waters does not necessarily represent additional effort that is not accounted for in Tables 1 and 2. Many vessels holding HSFCA permits also fish within U.S. waters and are included in the number of vessels and participants operating within those fisheries in Tables 1 and 2.
Tables 1, 2, and 3 also list the marine mammal species and/or stocks incidentally killed or injured seriously or non-seriously in each fishery based on SARs, injury determination reports, bycatch estimation reports, observer data, logbook data, stranding data, disentanglement network data, fishermen self-reports i.e., MMAP
reports, and anecdotal reports. The best available scientific information included in these reports is based on data through 2018. This list includes all species and/or stocks known to be killed or injured in a given fishery, but also includes species and/or stocks for which there are anecdotal records of a mortality or injury. Additionally, species identified by logbook entries, stranding data, or fishermen self-reports i.e., MMAP reports may not be verified. In Tables 1 and 2, NMFS has designated those species/stocks driving a fisherys classification i.e., the fishery
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