Federal Register - February 19, 2021
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
TABLE 7FINAL 2021 SABLEFISH TAC AMOUNTS IN THE GULF OF ALASKA AND ALLOCATIONS TO FIXED AND TRAWL
GEAR
Values are rounded to the nearest metric ton Area/District
Fixed gear allocation
TAC
Trawl gear allocation
Western
Central 1
West Yakutat 2
Southeast Outside
2,428
8,056
2,929
4,579
1,942
6,444
2,554
4,579
486
1,612
375
0
Total
17,992
15,519
2,473
1 The trawl allocation of sablefish in the Central Regulatory Area is further apportioned to the Rockfish Program cooperatives 829 mt. See Table 12: Final 2021 Apportionments of Rockfish Secondary Species in the Central GOA. This results in 783 mt being available for the nonRockfish Program trawl fisheries.
2 The trawl allocation is based on allocating 5 percent of the combined Eastern Regulatory Area West Yakutat and Southeast Outside Districts sablefish TAC as incidental catch to trawl gear in the West Yakutat District.
TABLE 8FINAL 2022 SABLEFISH TAC AMOUNTS IN THE GULF OF ALASKA AND ALLOCATIONS TO TRAWL GEAR 1
Values are rounded to the nearest metric ton Area/District
Fixed gear allocation
TAC
Trawl gear allocation
Western
Central 2
West Yakutat 3
Southeast Outside
4,165
11,111
4,009
5,946
n/a n/a n/a n/a
833
2,222
498
0
Total
25,231
n/a
3,553
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The Council recommended that the final 2022 harvest specifications for the fixed gear sablefish Individual Fishing Quota fisheries not be specified in the final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications.
2 The trawl allocation of sablefish in the Central Regulatory Area is further apportioned to the Rockfish Program cooperatives 1,143 mt. See Table 13: Final 2022 Apportionments of Rockfish Secondary Species in the Central GOA. This results in 1,079 mt being available for the nonRockfish Program trawl fisheries.
3 The trawl allocation is based on allocating 5 percent of the combined Eastern Regulatory Area West Yakutat and Southeast Outside Districts sablefish TAC as incidental catch to trawl gear in the West Yakutat District.
Allocations, Apportionments, and Sideboard Limits for the Rockfish Program These final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications for the GOA include the fishery cooperative allocations and sideboard limitations established by the Rockfish Program. Program participants are primarily trawl CVs and trawl CPs, with limited participation by vessels using longline gear. The Rockfish Program assigns quota share and cooperative quota to participants for primary species Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and dusky rockfish and secondary species Pacific cod, rougheye and blackspotted rockfish, sablefish, shortraker rockfish, and thornyhead rockfish, allows a participant holding a license limitation program LLP license with rockfish quota share to form a rockfish cooperative with other persons, and allows holders of CP LLP licenses to opt out of the fishery. The Rockfish Program also has an entry level fishery for rockfish primary species for vessels using longline gear. Longline gear includes hook-and-line, jig, troll, and handline gear.
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Under the Rockfish Program, rockfish primary species in the Central GOA are allocated to participants after deducting for incidental catch needs in other directed groundfish fisheries 679.81a2. Participants in the Rockfish Program also receive a portion of the Central GOA TAC of specific secondary species. In addition to groundfish species, the Rockfish Program allocates a portion of the halibut PSC limit 191 mt from the third season deep-water species fishery allowance for the GOA trawl fisheries to Rockfish Program participants 679.81d and Table 28d to 50 CFR
part 679. The Rockfish Program also establishes sideboard limits to restrict the ability of harvesters operating under the Rockfish Program to increase their participation in other, non-Rockfish Program fisheries. These restrictions and halibut PSC limits are discussed in a subsequent section in this rule titled Rockfish Program Groundfish Sideboard and Halibut PSC
Limitations.
Section 679.81a2ii and Table 28e to 50 CFR part 679 require allocations of 5 mt of Pacific ocean perch, 5 mt of
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northern rockfish, and 50 mt of dusky rockfish to the entry level longline fishery in 2021 and 2022. The allocation for the entry level longline fishery may increase incrementally each year if the catch exceeds 90 percent of the allocation of a species. The incremental increase in the allocation would continue each year until it reaches the maximum percent of the TAC for that species. In 2020, the catch of Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and dusky rockfish did not attain the 90
percent threshold, and those final allocations for 2021 remain the same as the 2020 allocations. The remainder of the TACs for the rockfish primary species are allocated to the CV and CP
cooperatives 679.81a2iii. Table 9
lists the allocations of the 2021 and 2022 TACs for each rockfish primary species to the entry level longline fishery, the potential incremental increases for future years, and the maximum percentages of the TACs assigned to the Rockfish Program that may be allocated to the rockfish entry level longline fishery.
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