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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 248 / Thursday, December 30, 2021 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 648
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Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder Fishery;
Quota Transfers from NC to CT and ME
to RI
National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of quota transfer.
AGENCY:

NMFS announces that the states of North Carolina and Maine are transferring a portion of their 2021
commercial summer flounder quota to the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, respectively. This adjustment to the 2021 fishing year quota is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan quota transfer provisions. This announcement informs the public of the revised 2021
commercial quotas for North Carolina, Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
DATES: Effective December 27, 2021, through December 31, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laura Hansen, Fishery Management Specialist, 978 2819225.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Regulations governing the summer flounder fishery are found in 50 CFR
648.100 through 648.110. These regulations require annual specification of a commercial quota that is apportioned among the coastal states from Maine through North Carolina. The process to set the annual commercial quota and the percent allocated to each state is described in 648.102 and final 2021 allocations were published on December 21, 2020 85 FR 82946.
The final rule implementing Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan FMP, as published in the Federal Register on December 17, 1993 58 FR 65936, provided a mechanism for transferring summer flounder commercial quota from one state to another. Two or more states, under mutual agreement and with the concurrence of the NMFS
Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator, can transfer or combine summer flounder commercial quota under 648.102c2. The Regional Administrator is required to consider three criteria in the evaluation of requests for quota transfers or
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combinations: The transfer or combinations would not preclude the overall annual quota from being fully harvested; the transfer addresses an unforeseen variation or contingency in the fishery; and the transfer is consistent with the objectives of the FMP and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The Regional Administrator has determined these three criteria have been met for the transfers approved in this notification.
North Carolina is transferring 40,000
lb 18,144 kg to Connecticut and Maine is transferring 14,000 lb 6,350 kg to Rhode Island through mutual agreement of the states. These transfers were requested to ensure Connecticut and Rhode Island would not exceed their 2021 quota. The revised summer flounder quotas for 2021 are: North Carolina, 2,878,480 lb 1,305,657 kg;
Connecticut, 669,376 lb 303,624 kg;
Maine, 33 lb 15 kg; and, Rhode Island, 1,922,724 lb 872,133 kg.
Classification NMFS issues this action pursuant to section 305d of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. This action is required by 50 CFR
648.162e1i through iii, which was issued pursuant to section 304b, and is exempted from review under Executive Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 27, 2021.
Karen Abrams, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
FR Doc. 202128370 Filed 122721; 4:15 pm BILLING CODE 351022P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 660
Docket No. 2012040325
RIN 0648BL10

Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery;
20212022 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments; Correction National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
AGENCY:

NMFS published a final rule on December 23, 2021, announcing
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routine inseason adjustments to management measures in the commercial and recreational groundfish fisheries. In implementing these changes, NMFS inadvertently removed the trip limit for California black rockfish between 42 N latitude and 4010 N latitude in Table 2 North and Table 3 North. This correction is necessary so that the implementing regulations are accurate.
DATES: This correction is effective January 1, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sean E. Matson, 206 5266140, email:
sean.matson@noaa.gov.
ADDRESSES:
Electronic Access This rule is accessible via the internet at the Office of the Federal Register website at https
www.federalregister.gov. Background information and documents are available at the Pacific Fishery Management Councils website at http
www.pcouncil.org/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS
published a final rule on December 23, 2021, announcing routine inseason adjustments to management measures in the commercial and recreational groundfish fisheries. This rule is effective January 1, 2022.
The December 23, 2021, final rule implemented changes to trip limits for sablefish north of 36 N latitude and for lingcod north of 42 N latitude.
Additionally, the final rule announced new sub-bag limits and sub-trip limits, in recreational and non-trawl commercial fisheries respectively, for two nearshore species, quillback rockfish and copper rockfish, as well as the shelf species vermillion rockfish.
In implementing these changes, NMFS inadvertently removed the trip limit for California black rockfish between 42 N latitude and 4010 N
latitude in Table 2 North and Table 3
North of part 660, subpart E and F, respectively. This correction reinstates this trip limit as Line 22 of both tables.
No other changes are made via this correction document. This correction is necessary so that the implementing regulations are accurate.
Correction Effective January 1, 2022, in FR Doc.
202127901 at 86 FR 72863 in the issue of December 23, 2021, the following corrections are made:
Table 2 North to Part 660 Corrected 1. On page 72869, in amendatory instruction 2, Table 2 North to Part 660, Subpart ENon-Trawl Rockfish

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