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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
TABLE 24FINAL 2022 ROCKFISH PROGRAM SIDEBOARD LIMITS FOR THE WESTERN GOA AND WEST YAKUTAT DISTRICT
BY FISHERY FOR THE CATCHER/PROCESSOR SECTOR
Values are rounded to the nearest metric ton Area
Fishery
CP sector % of TAC

Western GOA

Dusky rockfish
Pacific ocean perch
Northern rockfish
Dusky rockfish
Pacific ocean perch

72.3
50.6
74.3
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Confidential 1

West Yakutat District
1 Not
Final 2022
TACs
Final 2022 CP limit
265
1,572
1,926
460
1,631

192.
795.
1,431.
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Confidential.1

released due to confidentiality requirements associated with fish ticket data, as established by NMFS and the State of Alaska.

Under the Rockfish Program, the CP
sector is subject to halibut PSC
sideboard limits for the trawl deepwater and shallow-water species fisheries from July 1 through July 31
679.82e3 and 5. Halibut PSC
sideboard ratios by fishery are set forth in 679.82e5. No halibut PSC
sideboard limits apply to the CV sector, as CVs participating in cooperatives receive a portion of the annual halibut PSC limit. CPs that opt out of the Rockfish Program are able to access that
portion of the deep-water and shallowwater halibut PSC sideboard limit not assigned to CP rockfish cooperatives.
The sideboard provisions for CPs that elect to opt out of participating in a rockfish cooperative are described in 679.82c, e, and f. Sideboard limits are linked to the catch history of specific vessels that may choose to opt out. After March 1, NMFS will determine which CPs have opted-out of the Rockfish Program in 2021, and NMFS will know the ratios and amounts
used to calculate opt-out sideboard ratios. NMFS will then calculate any applicable opt-out sideboards for 2021
and post these limits on the Alaska Region website at https
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/
sustainable-fisheries/alaska-fisheriesmanagement-reportscentral-goarockfish. Table 25 lists the final 2021
and 2022 Rockfish Program halibut PSC
sideboard limits for the CP sector.

TABLE 25FINAL 2021 AND 2022 ROCKFISH PROGRAM HALIBUT PSC SIDEBOARD LIMITS FOR THE CATCHER/
PROCESSOR SECTOR
Values are rounded to the nearest metric ton
Sector
Shallow-water species fishery halibut PSC
sideboard ratio percent
Deep-water species fishery halibut PSC
sideboard ratio percent
2021 and 2022
halibut mortality limit mt
Annual shallowwater species fishery halibut PSC sideboard limit mt
Annual deepwater species fishery halibut PSC sideboard limit mt
Catcher/processor

0.10

2.50

1,706

2

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Amendment 80 Program Groundfish and PSC Sideboard Limits Amendment 80 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area Amendment 80
Program established a limited access privilege program for the non-AFA trawl CP sector. The Amendment 80 Program established groundfish and halibut PSC
catch limits for Amendment 80 Program participants to limit the ability of participants eligible for the Amendment
80 Program to expand their harvest efforts in the GOA.
Section 679.92 establishes groundfish harvesting sideboard limits on all Amendment 80 program vessels, other than the fishing vessel F/V Golden Fleece, to amounts no greater than the limits listed in Table 37 to 50 CFR part 679. Under 679.92d, the F/V Golden Fleece is prohibited from directed fishing for pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, dusky rockfish, and northern rockfish in the GOA.

Groundfish sideboard limits for Amendment 80 Program vessels operating in the GOA are based on their average aggregate harvests from 1998
through 2004 72 FR 52668, September 14, 2007. Tables 26 and 27 list the final 2021 and 2022 groundfish sideboard limits for Amendment 80 Program vessels. NMFS will deduct all targeted or incidental catch of sideboard species made by Amendment 80 Program vessels from the sideboard limits in Tables 26 and 27.

TABLE 26FINAL 2021 GOA GROUNDFISH SIDEBOARD LIMITS FOR AMENDMENT 80 PROGRAM VESSELS

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Ratio of Amendment 80 sector vessels 1998
2004 catch to TAC

Area
2021 TAC
mt
2021
Amendment 80 vessel sideboards mt
Shumagin 610

0.003

799

2

Chirikof 620
Kodiak 630

0.002
0.002

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6,297

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