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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations halibut PSC limits. NMFS concurs with the Councils recommendations listed in Table 14, which shows the final 2021
and 2022 Pacific halibut PSC limits, allowances, and apportionments.

Sections 679.21d4iii and iv specifies that any unused amounts, or overages, of a seasonal apportionment of a halibut PSC limit will be added to or deducted from the next respective
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seasonal apportionment within the fishing year.

TABLE 14FINAL 2021 AND 2022 PACIFIC HALIBUT PROHIBITED SPECIES CATCH PSC LIMITS, ALLOWANCES, AND
APPORTIONMENTS
Values are in metric tons Hook-and-line gear 1

Trawl gear Other than DSR
Season
Percent
DSR

Amount Season
January 20April 1
April 1July 1
July 1August 1

30.5
20.0
27.0

519
341
462

August 1October 1
October 1December 31 ..

7.5
15.0

Total

Percent
Amount
Season
Amount
86
2 12

221
5 31

January 1December 31

9

128
256

January 1June 10
June 10September 1
September 1December 31.

1,706

257

9

1 The
Pacific halibut prohibited species catch PSC limit for hook-and-line gear is allocated to the DSR fishery in the SEO District and to the hook-and-line fisheries other than the DSR fishery. The hook-and-line sablefish IFQ fishery is exempt from halibut PSC limits, as are pot and jig gear for all groundfish fisheries.
Note: Seasonal or sector apportionments may not total precisely due to rounding.

Section 679.21d3ii authorizes further apportionment of the trawl halibut PSC limit to trawl fishery categories listed in 679.21d3iii.
The annual apportionments are based on each categorys proportional share of the anticipated halibut bycatch mortality during the fishing year and optimization of the total amount of groundfish harvest under the halibut PSC limit. The fishery categories for the trawl halibut PSC limits are: 1 A deepwater species fishery, composed of sablefish, rockfish, deep-water flatfish, rex sole, and arrowtooth flounder; and 2 a shallow-water species fishery, composed of pollock, Pacific cod, shallow-water flatfish, flathead sole, Atka mackerel, and other species sharks and octopuses 679.21d3iii. Halibut mortality incurred while directed fishing for skates with trawl gear accrues towards the shallow-water species fishery halibut PSC limit 69 FR 26320, May 12, 2004.

NMFS will combine available trawl halibut PSC limit apportionments during the second season deep-water and shallow-water species fisheries for use in either fishery from May 15
through June 30 679.21d4iiiD.
This is intended to maintain groundfish harvest while minimizing halibut bycatch by these sectors to the extent practicable. This provides the deepwater and shallow-water species trawl fisheries additional flexibility and the incentive to participate in fisheries at times of the year that may have lower halibut PSC rates relative to other times of the year.
Table 15 lists the final 2021 and 2022
apportionments of trawl halibut PSC
limits between the trawl gear deepwater and shallow-water species fishery categories.
Table 28d to 50 CFR part 679 specifies the amount of the trawl halibut PSC
limit that is assigned to the CV and CP
sectors that are participating in the Rockfish Program. This includes 117 mt
of halibut PSC limit to the CV sector and 74 mt of halibut PSC limit to the CP
sector. These amounts are allocated from the trawl deep-water species fisherys halibut PSC third seasonal apportionment. After the combined CV
and CP halibut PSC limit allocation of 191 mt to the Rockfish Program, 150 mt remains for the trawl deep-water species fisherys halibut PSC third seasonal apportionment.
Section 679.21d4iiiB limits the amount of the halibut PSC limit allocated to Rockfish Program participants that could be reapportioned to the general GOA trawl fisheries during the current fishing year to no more than 55 percent of the unused annual halibut PSC limit apportioned to Rockfish Program participants. The remainder of the unused Rockfish Program halibut PSC
limit is unavailable for use by any person for the remainder of the fishing year 679.21d4iiiC.

TABLE 15FINAL 2021 AND 2022 APPORTIONMENT OF PACIFIC HALIBUT PROHIBITED SPECIES CATCH LIMITS BETWEEN
THE TRAWL GEAR DEEP-WATER SPECIES FISHERY AND THE SHALLOW-WATER SPECIES FISHERY CATEGORIES
Values are in metric tons
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Season
Shallow-water
Deep-water 1

Total
January 20April 1
April 1July 1
July 1August 1
August 1October 1

384
85
121
53

135
256
341
75

519
341
462
128

Subtotal January 20October 1

643

807

1,450

256

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