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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 9, 2021 / Rules and Regulations halibut anywhere in those areas until the vessel has removed all of its gear from the water and has either:
a Made a landing and completely offloaded its entire catch of other fish;
or b submitted to a hold inspection by an authorized officer.
11 Notwithstanding any other provision in these Regulations, a person may retain, possess and dispose of Pacific halibut taken with trawl gear only as authorized by Prohibited Species Donation regulations of NOAA
Fisheries.

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19. Size Limits 1 No person shall take or possess any Pacific halibut that:
a With the head on, is less than 32
inches 81.3 cm as measured in a straight line, passing over the pectoral fin from the tip of the lower jaw with the mouth closed, to the extreme end of the middle of the tail, as illustrated in Figure 2; or b with the head removed, is less than 24 inches 61.0 cm as measured from the base of the pectoral fin at its most anterior point to the extreme end of the middle of the tail, as illustrated in Figure 2.
2 No person on board a vessel fishing for, or tendering, Pacific halibut in any IPHC Regulatory Area shall possess any Pacific halibut that has had its head removed, except that Pacific halibut frozen at sea with its head removed may be possessed on board a vessel by persons in IPHC Regulatory Areas 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, and 4E if authorized by Federal regulations.
3 The size limit in paragraph 1b will not be applied to any Pacific halibut that has had its head removed after the operator has landed the Pacific halibut.
20. Logs 1 The operator of any U.S. vessel fishing for Pacific halibut that has an overall length of 26 feet 7.9 meters or greater shall maintain an accurate log of Pacific halibut fishing operations. The operator of a vessel fishing in waters in and off Alaska must use one of the following logbooks: The Groundfish/IFQ
Longline and Pot Gear Daily Fishing Logbook, in electronic or paper form, provided by NOAA Fisheries; the Alaska hook-and-line logbook provided by Petersburg Vessel Owners Association or Alaska Longline Fishermans Association; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ADFG
longline-pot logbook; or the logbook provided by IPHC. The operator of a vessel fishing in IPHC Regulatory Area
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Voluntary Sablefish Logbook, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ODFW Fixed Gear Logbook, or the logbook provided by IPHC.
2 The logbook referred to in paragraph 1 must include the following information:
a The name of the vessel and the State ADFG, WDFW, ODFW, or CDFW
or Tribal ID number;
b the dates upon which the fishing gear is set or retrieved;
c the latitude and longitude coordinates or a direction and distance from a point of land for each set or day;
d the number of skates deployed or retrieved, and number of skates lost; and e the total weight or number of Pacific halibut retained for each set or day.
3 The logbook referred to in paragraph 1 shall be:
a Maintained on board the vessel;
b updated not later than 24 hours after 0000 midnight local time for each day fished and prior to the offloading or sale of Pacific halibut taken during that fishing trip;
c retained for a period of two years by the owner or operator of the vessel;
d open to inspection by an authorized officer or any authorized representative of the Commission upon demand; and e kept on board the vessel when engaged in Pacific halibut fishing, during transits to port of landing, and until the offloading of all Pacific halibut is completed.
4 The log referred to in paragraph 1
does not apply to the incidental Pacific halibut fishery during the salmon troll season in IPHC Regulatory Area 2A
defined in paragraph 6 of section 9.
5 The operator of any Canadian vessel fishing for Pacific halibut shall maintain an accurate record in the British Columbia Integrated Groundfish Fishing Log.
6 The log referred to in paragraph 5
must include the following information:
a The name of the vessel and the DFO vessel registration number;
b the dates upon which the fishing gear is set and retrieved;
c the latitude and longitude coordinates for each set;
d the number of skates deployed or retrieved, and number of skates lost; and e the total weight or number of Pacific halibut retained for each set.
7 The log referred to in paragraph 5
shall be:
a Maintained on board the vessel;
b retained for a period of two years by the owner or operator of the vessel;
c open to inspection by an authorized officer or any authorized
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representative of the Commission upon demand;
d kept on board the vessel when engaged in Pacific halibut fishing, during transits to port of landing, and until the offloading of all Pacific halibut is completed;
e submitted to the DFO within seven days of offloading; and f submitted to the Commission within seven days of the final offload if not previously collected by a Commission employee.
8 No person shall make a false entry in a log referred to in this section.
21. Receipt and Possession of Pacific Halibut 1 No person shall receive Pacific halibut caught in IPHC Regulatory Area 2A from a United States of America vessel that does not have on board the license required by section 15.
2 No person shall possess on board a vessel a Pacific halibut other than whole or with gills and entrails removed, except that this paragraph shall not prohibit the possession on board a vessel of:
a Pacific halibut cheeks cut from Pacific halibut caught by persons authorized to process the Pacific halibut on board in accordance with NOAA
Fisheries regulations published at 50
CFR part 679;
b fillets from Pacific halibut offloaded in accordance with section 21
that are possessed on board the harvesting vessel in the port of landing up to 1800 local time on the calendar day following the offload 4; and c Pacific halibut with their heads removed in accordance with section 19.
3 No person shall offload Pacific halibut from a vessel unless the gills and entrails have been removed prior to offloading.5
4 It shall be the responsibility of a vessel operator who lands Pacific halibut to continuously and completely offload at a single offload site all Pacific halibut on board the vessel.
5 A registered buyer as that term is defined in regulations promulgated by NOAA Fisheries and codified at 50 CFR
part 679 who receives Pacific halibut harvested in IFQ and CDQ fisheries in IPHC Regulatory Areas 2C, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, and 4E, directly from the vessel operator that harvested such Pacific halibut must weigh all the Pacific halibut received and record the 4 DFO has more restrictive regulations; therefore, section 21 paragraph 2b does not apply to fish caught in IPHC Regulatory Area 2B or landed in British Columbia.
5 DFO did not adopt this regulation; therefore, section 21 paragraph 3 does not apply to fish caught in IPHC Regulatory Area 2B.

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