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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
TABLE 6FINAL 2022 SEASONAL APPORTIONMENTS AND ALLOCATION OF PACIFIC COD TOTAL ALLOWABLE CATCH TAC
AMOUNTS IN THE GOA; ALLOCATIONS IN THE WESTERN GOA AND CENTRAL GOA SECTORS, AND THE EASTERN
GOA INSHORE AND OFFSHORE PROCESSING COMPONENTSContinued Values are rounded to the nearest metric ton A Season
B Season
Annual allocation mt
Sector percentage of annual non-jig TAC

Trawl CP
All Pot CV and Pot CP

209
3,309

0.90
19.80

78
1,724

1.50
18.20

131
1,585

Total

9,024

63.84

5,749

36.16

3,275

Central GOA
Jig 1.0% of TAC
Hook-and-line < 50 CV
Hook-and-line 50 CV
Hook-and-line CP
Trawl CV 1
Trawl CP
All Pot CV and Pot CP

165
2,390
1,098
836
6,807
687
4,551

N/A
9.32
5.61
4.11
25.29
2.00
17.83

99
1,525
918
672
4,140
328
2,918

N/A
5.29
1.10
1.00
16.29
2.19
9.97

66
865
180
163
2,667
359
1,633

Total

16,534

64.16

10,601

35.84

5,933

Regulatory area and sector
Eastern GOA

Seasonal allowances mt
Inshore 90% of Annual TAC
2,403

Sector percentage of annual non-jig TAC

Seasonal allowances mt
Offshore 10% of Annual TAC
2,163

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catcher vessels participating in Rockfish Program cooperatives receive 3.81 percent, or 630 mt, of the annual Central GOA TAC, which is deducted from the Trawl CV B season allowance see Table 13. Final 2022 Apportionments of Rockfish Secondary Species in the Central GOA and Table 28c to 50 CFR part 679.

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Allocations of the Sablefish TAC
Amounts to Vessels Using Fixed and Trawl Gear Sections 679.20a4i and ii require allocations of sablefish TACs for each of the regulatory areas and districts to fixed and trawl gear. In the Western and Central Regulatory Areas, 80
percent of each TAC is allocated to fixed gear, and 20 percent of each TAC is allocated to trawl gear. In the Eastern Regulatory Area, 95 percent of the TAC
is allocated to fixed gear, and 5 percent is allocated to trawl gear. The trawl gear allocation in the Eastern Regulatory Area may only be used to support incidental catch of sablefish using trawl gear while directed fishing for other target species 679.20a4i.
In recognition of the prohibition against trawl gear in the SEO District of the Eastern Regulatory Area, the Council recommended and NMFS approves specifying for incidental catch the allocation of 5 percent of the combined Eastern Regulatory Area sablefish TAC
to trawl gear in the WYK District of the Eastern Regulatory Area. The remainder of the WYK District sablefish TAC is
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allocated to vessels using fixed gear.
NMFS allocates 100 percent of the sablefish TAC in the SEO District to vessels using fixed gear. This action results in a 2021 allocation of 375 mt to trawl gear and 2,554 mt to fixed gear in the WYK District, a 2021 allocation of 4,579 mt to fixed gear in the SEO
District, and a 2022 allocation of 498 mt to trawl gear in the WYK District. Table 7 lists the allocations of the 2021
sablefish TACs to fixed and trawl gear.
Table 8 lists the allocations of the 2022
sablefish TACs to trawl gear.
The Council recommended that a trawl sablefish TAC be established for two years so that retention of incidental catch of sablefish by trawl gear could commence in January in the second year of the groundfish harvest specifications.
Both the 2021 and 2022 trawl allocations are specified in these final harvest specifications, in Tables 7 and 8, respectively.
The Council also recommended that the fixed gear sablefish TAC be established annually to ensure that this Individual Fishing Quota IFQ fishery is conducted concurrently with the halibut IFQ fishery and is based on the
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most recent survey information. Since there is an annual assessment for sablefish and since the final harvest specifications are expected to be published before the IFQ season begins in March 2020, the Council recommended that the fixed gear sablefish TAC be set annually, rather than for two years, so that the best scientific information available could be considered in establishing the sablefish TACs. Accordingly, Table 7 lists the 2021 fixed gear allocations, and the 2022 fixed gear allocations will be specified in the 2022 and 2023 harvest specifications.
With the exception of the trawl allocations that are provided to the Rockfish Program see Table 28c to 50
CFR part 679, directed fishing for sablefish with trawl gear in the GOA is closed during the fishing year. Also, fishing for groundfish with trawl gear is prohibited prior to January 20
679.23c. Therefore, it is not likely that the sablefish allocation to trawl gear would be reached before the effective date of these final 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications.

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