Federal Register - September 17, 2021
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 178 / Friday, September 17, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
This action does not add any new reporting requirements and does not change any regulatory requirements.
This action only adds to or modifies language in the Crab, Scallop, and Salmon FMPs to more transparently reflect and align with how bycatch is currently reported in the fisheries managed by the Council by explicitly stating the SBRM in each fishery.
Crab FMP
The combination of the Crab Observer Program and industry reports provides a standard reporting methodology that is consistent with the SBRM final rule.
Descriptions of these management measures currently exist in the Crab FMP; however, the FMP needed to be amended to explicitly identify these methodologies as the SBRM.
Amendment 51 to the Crab FMP adds language to Sections 8.1.2, 8.3.1, and 8.3.7 of the FMP to identify the existing SBRM and to explain how it meets the purpose of collecting, recording, and reporting bycatch.
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Scallop FMP
The combination of industry reports and the Scallop Observer Program provides a standard reporting methodology that is consistent with the SBRM final rule. Descriptions of these management measures currently exist in the Scallop FMP; however, the FMP
needed to be amended to explicitly identify these methodologies as the SBRM. Amendment 17 to the Scallop FMP adds language to Section 3.2.12 of the FMP to identify the SBRM and explain how it meets the purpose of collecting, recording, and reporting bycatch.
Salmon FMP
Fish tickets are the standardized reporting methodology in place for reporting catch of salmon species that are subject to maximum retainable amounts. The Statewide Harvest Survey and creel surveys, as well as the Saltwater Guide Logbooks, are the standardized reporting methodology in place for reporting in the salmon sport fishery and the guided sport fishery.
However, the Salmon FMP needed to be
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amended in order to explicitly identify these methodologies as the SBRM.
Amendment 15 to the Salmon FMP adds language to Section 8.1.8 of the FMP
Bycatch Management to identify the SBRM and explain how it meets the purpose of collecting, recording, and reporting bycatch in the directed commercial salmon fishery. In addition, Amendment 15 adds language to Section 8.1.9 Sport Fisheries to identify the SBRM for the salmon sport fishery.
Comments and Responses During the public comment period for the NOA for the Amendments, NMFS
received no comments. NMFS is not disapproving any part of the Amendments.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: September 13, 2021.
Samuel D. Rauch, III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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