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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 58 / Monday, March 29, 2021 / Notices
Criteria Used in Identifying Successful Applicants Applicants demonstrating the greatest benefits to the United States through their intended operations will be most successful. Such benefits may include:
The use of U.S vessels and crew to harvest fish in the NAFO Regulatory Area;
Detailed, positive impacts on U.S.
employment as a result of the fishing, transport, or processing operations;
Use of U.S. processing facilities;
Transport, marketing, and sales of product within the United States;
Other ancillary, demonstrable benefits to U.S. businesses as a result of the fishing operation; and Documentation of the physical characteristics and economics of the fishery for future use by the U.S. fishing industry.
Other factors we may consider include but are not limited to: A
documented history of successful fishing operations in NAFO or other similar fisheries; the history of compliance by the vessel with the NAFO CEM or other domestic and international regulatory requirements, including potential disqualification of an applicant with repeated compliance issues; and, for those applicants without NAFO or other international fishery history, a description of demonstrated harvest, processing, marketing, and regulatory compliance within domestic fisheries.
To ensure equitable access by U.S.
fishing interests, we may provide additional guidance or procedures, or we may issue regulations designed to allocate fishing interests to one or more U.S. applicants from among qualified applicants. These regulatory changes may result in NOAA altering or amending quota the NOAA grants an applicant through this process. NOAA
will, however, notify any approved applicant of NOAAs proposed regulatory changes in advance of making the changes. After reviewing all requests for allocations submitted, we may also decide not to grant any allocations if it is determined that no requests adequately meet the criteria described in this notice.
Notification of Selected Vessels for NAFO Fisheries We will provide written responses to all applicants notifying them of their application status and, as needed for successful applicants, allocation awards will be made as quickly as possible so that we may notify NAFO and take other necessary actions to facilitate operations in the regulatory area by U.S. fishing
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interests. Successful applicants will receive additional information from us on permit conditions and applicable regulations before starting fishing operations.
Mid-Term Allocation Adjustments In the event that an approved U.S.
entity does not, is not able to, or is not expected to fish an allocation, or part thereof, awarded to them, NMFS may reallocate to other approved U.S.
entities. If requested, approved U.S.
entities must provide updated fishing plans and/or schedules. A U.S. entity may not consolidate or transfer allocations without prior approval from NMFS. In the event that other approved U.S. entities are unable to fish additional allocation, NMFS may solicit further interest by notice in the Federal Register.
Chartering a Vessel To Fish Available U.S. Allocations For 3M shrimp, the United States may enter into a chartering arrangement with a vessel from any other NAFO
Contracting Party. Additionally, any U.S. vessel or fishing operation may enter into a chartering arrangement with any other vessel or business from a NAFO Contracting Party. The United States and the other Contracting Party involved in a chartering arrangement must agree to the charter, and the NAFO
Executive Secretary must be advised of the chartering arrangement before the commencement of any charter fishing operations. Any U.S. vessel or fishing operation interested in making use of the chartering provisions of NAFO must provide at least the following information: The name and registration number of the U.S. vessel; a copy of the charter agreement; a detailed fishing plan; a written letter of consent from the applicable NAFO Contracting Party; the date from which the vessel is authorized to commence fishing; and the duration of the charter not to exceed six months.
Expressions of interest using another NAFO Contracting Party vessel under charter should be accompanied by a detailed description of anticipated benefits to the United States, as described above. Additional detail on chartering arrangements can be found in Article 26 of the CEM https
www.nafo.int/Fisheries/Conservation.
Any vessel from another Contracting Party wishing to enter into a chartering arrangement with the United States must be in full current compliance with the requirements outlined in the NAFO
Convention and CEM. These requirements include, but are not limited to, submission of the following
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reports to the NAFO Executive Secretary:
Notification that the vessel is authorized by its flag state to fish within the NAFO Regulatory Area during the applicable fishing year;
Provisional monthly catch reports for all vessels of that NAFO Contracting Party operating in the NAFO Regulatory Area;
Daily catch reports for each day fished by the subject vessel within the Regulatory Area;
Observer reports within 30 days following the completion of a fishing trip; and An annual statement of actions taken by its flag state to comply with the NAFO Convention.
The United States may also consider the vessels previous compliance with NAFO bycatch, reporting, and other provisions, as outlined in the NAFO
CEM, before authorizing the chartering arrangement.
Fishing in the NAFO Regulatory Area U.S. applicant vessels must be in possession of, or obtain, a valid HSFCA
permit, which is available from the NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office. All permitted vessels must comply with any conditions of this permit and all applicable provisions of the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries and the CEM. We reserve the right to impose additional permit conditions that ensure compliance with the NAFO Convention and the CEM, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and any other applicable law.
Further details regarding U.S. and NAFO requirements are available from the NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, and can be found in the NAFO CEM on the internet https
www.nafo.int/Fisheries/Conservation.
Dated: March 24, 2021.
Jennifer M. Wallace, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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