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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 635
Docket No. 180117042888402; RTID
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Atlantic Highly Migratory Species;
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure of the General category January fishery for 2021.
AGENCY:

NMFS closes the Atlantic bluefin tuna BFT General category fishery for the January subquota period.
The intent of this closure is to prevent overharvest of the adjusted January subquota.

SUMMARY:

Effective 11:30 p.m., local time, February 27, 2021, through May 31, 2021.

DATES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sarah McLaughlin, sarah.mclaughlin@
noaa.gov, 9782819260, Nicholas Velseboer, nicholas.velseboer@
noaa.gov, 9786752168, or Larry Redd, Jr., larry.redd@noaa.gov, 3014278503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Regulations implemented under the authority of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act ATCA; 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq. and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Magnuson-Stevens Act; 16 U.S.C. 1801
et seq. governing the harvest of BFT by persons and vessels subject to U.S.
jurisdiction are found at 50 CFR part 635. Section 635.27 subdivides the U.S.
BFT quota recommended by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ICCAT
among the various domestic fishing categories, per the allocations established in the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan 2006
Consolidated HMS FMP 71 FR 58058, October 2, 2006 and amendments, and in accordance with implementing regulations.
Under 635.28a1, NMFS files a closure notice with the Office of the Federal Register for publication when a BFT quota or subquota is reached or is projected to be reached. Retaining, possessing, or landing BFT under that quota category is prohibited on and after the effective date and time of a closure notice for that category, for the remainder of the fishing year, until the
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opening of the subsequent quota period or until such date as specified.
The base quota for the General category is 555.7 mt. See 635.27a.
Each of the General category time periods January, June through August, September, October through November, and December is allocated a subquota or portion of the annual General category quota. Although it is called the January subquota, the regulations allow the General category fishery under this quota to continue until the subquota is reached or March 31, whichever comes first. The baseline subquotas for each time period are as follows: 29.5 mt for January; 277.9 mt for June through August; 147.3 mt for September; 72.2 mt for October through November; and 28.9 mt for December.
Any unused General category quota rolls forward from one time period to the next and is available for use in subsequent time periods within the fishing year. Effective January 1, 2021, NMFS transferred 19.5 mt of the 28.9mt General category quota allocated for the December 2021 period to the January 2021 period, resulting in an adjusted subquota of 49 mt for the January period and a subquota of 9.4 mt for the December 2021 period 85 FR
83832, December 23, 2020. Effective February 8, 2021, NMFS transferred an additional 26 mt from the Reserve category to the General category, in the same notice as NMFS made the annual reallocation of Purse Seine category quota to the Reserve category, resulting in an adjusted subquota of 75 mt for the General category 2021 January subquota period and 168 mt for the Reserve category 86 FR 8717, February 9, 2021.
Closure of the January 2021 General Category Fishery Based on the best available General category BFT Landings information i.e., 57.7 mt landed as of February 25, 2021, as well as average catch rates and anticipated fishing conditions, NMFS
projects that the adjusted General category January 2021 subquota of 75 mt will be reached shortly, and that the General category fishery should be closed. Therefore, retaining, possessing, or landing large medium or giant BFT
by persons aboard vessels permitted in the Atlantic Tunas General category and the Atlantic HMS Charter/Headboat category while fishing commercially must cease at 11:30 p.m. local time on February 27, 2021. The General category will reopen automatically on June 1, 2021, for the June through August 2021
subquota period. This action applies to those vessels permitted in the General category, as well as to those HMS
Charter/Headboat permitted vessels
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