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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
14 Other rockfish in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas and in the West Yakutat District means other rockfish and demersal shelf rockfish. The other rockfish species group in the SEO District only includes other rockfish.
15 Big skate means Raja binoculata.
16 Longnose skate means Raja rhina.
17 Other skates mean Bathyraja and Raja spp.

Apportionment of Reserves Section 679.20b2 requires NMFS to set aside 20 percent of each TAC for pollock, Pacific cod, flatfish, sharks, and octopuses in reserve for possible apportionment at a later date during the fishing year. For 2021 and 2022, NMFS
proposed reapportionment of all the reserves in the proposed 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications published in the Federal Register on December 3, 2020
85 FR 78076. NMFS did not receive any public comments on the proposed reapportionments. For the final 2021
and 2022 harvest specifications, NMFS
reapportioned, as proposed, all the reserves for pollock, Pacific cod, flatfish, sharks, and octopuses back to the original TAC limit from which the reserve was derived 679.20b3.
This was done because NMFS expects, based on recent harvest patterns, that such reserves are not necessary and that the entire TAC for each of these species will be caught. The TACs listed in Tables 1 and 2 reflect reapportionments of reserve amounts to the original TAC
limit for these species and species groups, i.e., each final TAC for the above mentioned species or species groups contains the full TAC recommended by the Council.
Apportionments of Pollock TAC Among Seasons and Regulatory Areas, and Allocations for Processing by Inshore and Offshore Components In the GOA, pollock is apportioned by season and area, and is further allocated for processing by inshore and offshore components. The pollock TACs in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas of the GOA are apportioned among Statistical Areas 610, 620, and 630.
These apportionments are divided into two equal seasonal allowances of 50
percent to the A season January 20
through May 31 and 50 percent to the B season September 1 through November 1 679.20a5ivB and
679.23d2. As described earlier in the preamble, the regulatory revisions implemented by Amendment 109 to the FMP 85 FR 38093, published June 25, 2020, effective January 1, 2021
decreased the number of seasons to two and established two equal seasonal allowances of 50 percent. NMFS
incorporated these regulatory revisions into the harvest specifications for the GOA, and Tables 3 and 4, below, reflect the revised seasons and seasonal allowances implemented by Amendment 109 to the FMP.
The GOA pollock stock assessment continues to use a four-season methodology to determine pollock distribution in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas of the GOA to maintain continuity in the historical pollock apportionment time-series.
Pollock TACs in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas of the GOA are apportioned among Statistical Areas 610, 620, and 630 in proportion to the distribution of pollock biomass determined by the most recent NMFS
surveys, pursuant to 679.20a5ivA. The pollock chapter of the 2020 SAFE report see ADDRESSES contains a comprehensive description of the apportionment and reasons for the minor changes from past apportionments. For purposes of specifying pollock TAC between two seasons for the Western and Central Regulatory Areas of the GOA, NMFS has summed the A and B season apportionments and the C and D season apportionments as calculated in the 2020 GOA pollock assessment. This yields the seasonal amounts specified for the A season and the B season, respectively.
Within any fishing year, the amount by which a pollock seasonal allowance is underharvested or overharvested may be added to, or subtracted from, subsequent seasonal allowances for the Western and Central Regulatory Areas in a manner to be determined by the
Regional Administrator 679.20a5ivB. The rollover amount is limited to 20 percent of the subsequent seasonal TAC
apportionment for the statistical area.
Any unharvested pollock above the 20percent limit could be further distributed to the other statistical areas, in proportion to the estimated biomass in the subsequent season in those statistical areas and in an amount no more than 20 percent of the seasonal TAC apportionment in those statistical areas 679.20a5ivB. The pollock TACs in the WYK and the SEO Districts of 5,412 mt and 10,148 mt, respectively, in 2021, and 4,706 mt and 10,148 mt, respectively, in 2022, are not allocated by season.
Tables 3 and 4 list the final 2021 and 2022 seasonal biomass distribution of pollock in the Western and Central Regulatory Areas, area apportionments, and seasonal allowances. The amounts of pollock for processing by the inshore and offshore components are not shown.
Section 679.20a6i requires the allocation of 100 percent of the pollock TAC in all GOA regulatory areas and all seasonal allowances to vessels catching pollock for processing by the inshore component after subtraction of pollock amounts projected by the Regional Administrator to be caught by, or delivered to, the offshore component incidental to directed fishing for other groundfish species. Thus, the amount of pollock available for harvest by vessels harvesting pollock for processing by the offshore component is that amount that will be taken as incidental catch during directed fishing for groundfish species other than pollock, up to the maximum retainable amounts allowed by 679.20e and f. At this time, these incidental catch amounts of pollock are unknown and will be determined during the fishing year during the course of fishing activities by the offshore component.

TABLE 3FINAL 2021 DISTRIBUTION OF POLLOCK IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL REGULATORY AREAS OF THE GULF OF
ALASKA; AREA APPORTIONMENTS; AND SEASONAL ALLOWANCES OF ANNUAL TAC

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B September 1November 1

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17,677

Chirikof Area 620
41,737
13,133

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Kodiak Area 630
6,297
18,023

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48,833
48,833